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During the years leading up to the World War I the Irish struggle for independence played an increasingly large and acrimonious part in the business of the House of Commons, to which it should be recalled, Ireland then returned 103 members. However, on the outbreak of war in 1914, the Irish Question was set aside and for the next four years the five infantry regiments which were recruited from the South of Ireland sent countless battalions to fight and die beside their brethren from England, Ulster and the Empire. With the restoration of peace in 1918 the claim for Irish Independence was again voiced and now with renewed vigour. Serious disturbances followed and the situation soon reached a stage little short of civil war. Meanwhile, far away in India stories began to reach the men of the 1st Battalion of the Connaught Rangers concerning the brutalities being inflicted by the English on their fellow countrymen, particularly by the notorious Black and Tans. "Why", they asked themselves, "should we serve in the army of a country which is tyrannizing our own homeland?" They answered their own question by resorting to mutiny. Much has been written about the Mutiny of the Connaught Rang

Author

Anthony Babington

Publisher

London: Leo Cooper

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780850523270

Subjects

History, Humanities