"We are alienating the splendid Irish race": British Catholic response to the Irish conscription controversy of 1918.

From: Journal of Church and State | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Ireland was something of a paradox during the First World War. She was the "one bright spot," from the British point of view, at the time of the July-August crisis in August 1914 because the threat of civil war in Ireland was greatly diminished when the Great War commenced. Furthermore, just when Britain accepted the inevitability of, and offered to grant her, Home Rule at the height of the conscription controversy in 1918 the Irish rejected the offer. Unlike the rest of the United Kingdom, which accented conscription as a necessity in January 1916, Ireland refused to have ...

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