240. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Irish Civil War (Ep 3)
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Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnand. And me, William Durble. Now we are joined for the final time by the quite spectacular David Ferretter, author of Between Two Hells, The Irish Civil War And a nation not a rabble, the Irish Revolution, nineteen thirteen to nineteen twenty three, and he's also written so much more on Irish history. We supremely recommend every Anything that has his name on it. I've been enjoying his Transformation of Ireland, nineteen hundred to two thousand, which it doubles up as a dumbbell. If you ever don't want to go to the gym, you could just play with Dermot's book. It's about thousand pages long. tell It's a big fat book though. It's a lump of work, though it you can be a fit historian. That's what we think of when we think of William. Fit historian. Look, so let me just remind you of what you've missed if you've missed the first two episodes in this trilogy. We started off with the Easter rising, we then had a little bit of what the British response to that
was. And now we're entering, I think, possibly the most troubled waters as far as contemporary Irish historians are concerned. And that is the Irish civil war. So you know, we we've had independence We've had Easter rising, but now we have Ireland at war with itself. Just as a recap, just remind us that thread goes from famine to Easter uprising in nineteen sixteen was through to independent of sorts. for Ireland. Where where are we now in the scheme of things? We're at the moment
Where There is a dilemma. for an Irish Republican movement. And I mean that in the political on the military sense. If the fighting stops as it has stopped in july nineteen twenty one,
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