By Michael Laffan
Among 1916 and 1923 eire skilled a political in addition to an army revolution. This publication examines how--after the Easter emerging of 1916--radical revolutionaries shaped a precarious coalition with (relatively) reasonable politicians. the recent Sinn F?in social gathering routed its enemies, cooperated uneasily with the underground Irish govt, and accomplished so much of its ambitions prior to disintegrating in 1922. Its quick cave in are not distract from its achievements--in specific its position in "democratizing" the Irish revolution--while its successors due to the fact that have ruled the political lifetime of self sufficient eire.
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Yet it was not inspiration which Irish revolutionaries needed, but practical instruction, example and opportunity. These were provided by Edward Carson, James Craig and the Ulster Volunteers. Unionists were able to achieve in a matter of months what IRB members had dreamed of doing for many decades, but what they could not even attempt because of public indifference, police surveillance and their own fear of British repression. Even though the cabinet in London and the chief secretary in Dublin Castle were broadly sympathetic to Irish nationalists, Britain’s ability to avert rebellion in Ireland was displayed against only one section of the population.
Pádraic H. ), p. 14. 38 40 41 Sinn Féin, 24 Aug. 1912, editorial. For Griffith’s Sinn Féin movement, see below, pp. 21–33. I r i s h n at i o n a l i s t s 15 about 150,000. 42 The Parliamentary Party was deeply suspicious of these developments and it adopted its traditional methods of dealing with potential threats; it tried to infiltrate and neutralize the new body, first at local level and then in the form of an ultimatum by Redmond to MacNeill and his colleagues. In turn the Volunteer leaders were wary of politicians, indoctrinating their troops with a belief in the nobility of the soldier’s calling and warning them against the snares of constitutionalism.
1 Sinn Féin propaganda, c. 1911 I r i s h n at i o n a l i s t s 23 opening sentences in the first issue of Hobson’s newspaper The Republic made it clear that both it and the Dungannon clubs belonged to ‘the Sinn Féin movement’, and it went on to reject compromise, repeal of the Union, home rule or devolution: ‘an Irish Republic is our aim. ’75 Few nationalists followed this lead, and the paper survived for less than six months. In a letter partly written in code (according to which ‘wgeobwgt qbnwqot’ meant ‘National Council’) Hobson explained to the Irish-American leader Joe McGarrity that ‘advertisements won’t come in no matter what we do’.
