Fanning - Fatal Path
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This is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It was also the decade of the cataclysmic Great War, of an officers mutiny in an elite cavalry regiment of the British Army and of Irish armed rebellion. It was a time, argues Ronan Fanning, when violence and the threat of violence trumped democratic politics.
This is a contentious view. Historians have wished to see the events of that decade as an aberration, as an eruption of irrational bloodletting. And they have have been reluctant to write about the triumph of physical force. Fanning argues that in fact violence worked, however much this offends our contemporary moral instincts. Without resistance from the Ulster Unionists and its very real threat of violence the state of Northern Ireland would never have come into being. The Home Rule party...
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In memory of
my English mother, Margaret Ella Bristow (19111996),
and my Irish father, Patrick Ronan Fanning (19011975)
1 Herbert Henry Asquith, prime minister 190816, in 1915
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2 Augustine Birrell, chief secretary for Ireland 190716
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3 Asquith and Birrell with Margot Asquith in Ireland, 1912
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4 Andrew Bonar Law and Edward Carson at an Ulster Unionist demonstration in Balmoral, Belfast, 1912
Hogg Collection, National Museums Northern Ireland
5 The Ulster Volunteer Force parade at Balmoral, 1913
Linen Hall Library Postcard Collection, Belfast Telegraph
6 John Redmond at a meeting of Irish National Volunteers, 1914
Irish Independent, National Library of Ireland
7 Dublin in ruins after British artillery shelling during the 1916 rebellion
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8 An anti-conscription meeting at Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon, May 1918
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9 Ian Macpherson, chief secretary for Ireland 191920, and Lord French, Lord Lieutenant 191821
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12 King George V, with Queen Mary, at the first meeting of the Northern Ireland Parliament, 22 June 1921
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14 Prayer vigil of Sinn Fin supporters in July 1921 at Downing Street, where amon de Valera was meeting David Lloyd George
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15 Winston Churchill and Nevil Macready, general officer commanding the British forces in Ireland, arriving at Inverness Town Hall for an emergency cabinet meeting on Ireland, 21 September 1921
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16 British troops with their horses during the 1922 evacuation of what became the Irish Free State
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There is a path of fatality which pursues the relations between the two countries and makes them eternally at cross purposes.
David Lloyd George
House of Commons
22 December 1919
| 1906 | |
| January | Liberals win overall majority in general election. |
| 1907 | |
| 29Januar | Augustine Birrell appointed chief secretary for Ireland. |
| 21April | Inaugural meeting of Sinn Fin. |
| 3June | Collapse of Irish Council Bill in House of Commons. |
| 1908 | |
| 8 April | Herbert Henry Asquith appointed prime minister. |
| 1909 | |
| 30 November | House of Lords rejects David Lloyd Georges budget. |
| 10 December | Asquiths Albert Hall speech promising Irish home rule. |
| 1910 | |
| January | General election: nationalists hold balance |
| February | in House of Commons. |
| 21 February | Edward Carson elected leader of Irish Unionist MPs. |
| 6 May | Death of Edward VII; accession of George V. |
| 17 June | Constitutional Conference on powers of House of Lords. |
| 10 November | Collapse of Constitutional Conference. |
| December | General election: nationalists retain balance in Commons. |
| 1911 | |
| 18 August | Parliament Act: Lords power to reject bills cut to two years. |
| 23 September | Carson reveals plans for a provisional Ulster government. |
| 13 November | Andrew Bonar Law succeeds Arthur Balfour as leader of Conservative and Unionist Party. |
| 1912 | |
| 6 February | Lloyd George and Winston Churchill propose Ulsters exclusion from Home Rule Bill at cabinet. |
| 9 April | Bonar Law pledges British unionists support for resistance of Ulster unionists to Home Rule Bill at mass rally in Belfast. |
| 11 April | Asquith introduces Home Rule Bill in House of Commons. |
| 11 June | Liberal rebel MP moves amendment (defeated 18 June) excluding four north-eastern counties from Home Rule Bill. |
| 29 July | Bonar Laws inflammatory speech at Blenheim Palace. |
| 28 September | Ulster Day: unionists sign Covenant to resist home rule. |
| 1913 | |
| 16 January | Third reading of Home Rule Bill carried in Commons. |
| 30 January | Bill defeated in Lords. |
| 31 January | Formation of Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). |
| 7 July | Home Rule Bill again passes Commons. |
| 15 July | Home Rule Bill again rejected by Lords. |
| 11 August | George V urges Asquith to exclude Ulster. |
| 24 September | Ulster Unionist Council (UUC) approves plan for seizure of power by provisional government if Home Rule Bill enacted. |
| 14 October, | Asquiths and Bonar Laws secret meetings on exclusion. |
| 6 November | |
| 10 December | |
| 19 November | Inaugural meeting of Irish Citizen Army in Dublin. |
| 25 November | Inaugural meeting of Irish Volunteers in Dublin. |
| 4 December | Proclamation prohibiting arms importation into Ireland. |
| 16 December | Asquiths secret meetings on exclusion with Carson. |
| 2 January 1914 | |
| 1914 | |
| 22 January | Asquith informs cabinet of secret meetings. |
| 2 February | Asquith tells Redmond that he must offer exclusion. |
| 9 February | Cabinet defers decision on when offer will be made public. |
| 6 March | Asquith offers exclusion of Ulster for six years on moving second reading of Home Rule Bill for third time; Carson rejects. |
| 20 March | Curragh mutiny: 57 of 70 officers in 3rd Cavalry Brigade prefer dismissal to moving north to enforce home rule. |
| 2425 April | Ulster gun-running: 25,000 rifles for UVF landed without hindrance at Larne, Bangor and Donaghdee. |
| 12 May | Asquith announces amending bill to Home Rule Bill. |
| 16 June | John Redmond secures leadership of Irish Volunteers. |
| 23 June | Government of Ireland (Amendment) Bill providing for temporary exclusion by county option introduced in Lords. |
| 28 June | Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo. |
| 8 July | Amendment Bill amended in Lords to provide for permanent exclusion of all Ulster. |
| 10 July | Ulster provisional government meets in Belfast. |
| 2124 July | Buckingham Palace conference fails to agree on terms of Ulsters exclusion. |
| 23 July | Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. |
| 26 July | Irish Volunteers land rifles at Howth, Co. Dublin; British troops fire on crowd in Dublin: 4 killed, 30 wounded. |
| 12 August |
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