0:18:32 > 0:18:34"and should be killed without mercy
0:18:34 > 0:18:40opportunity arises."
0:18:42 > 0:18:46people to murder.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49prevails with some
0:19:00 > 0:19:10yet there was a ruthlessness question about that,
0:20:56 > 0:21:02who are going to exclude themselves "who comes of the people
0:21:08 > 0:21:13"that we have the right to coerce
0:21:13 > 0:21:21"but you cannot coerce them "and if we have the power to do so,
0:21:29 > 0:21:39throughout the 32 counties of the fight against British forces
0:21:39 > 0:21:45everyone down effectively. in the bottle and to stand
0:22:51 > 0:22:54have General Sir Henry Wilson
0:22:54 > 0:23:02been involved with himself prior using an IRB/IRA cadre that he'd
0:23:02 > 0:23:05been involved with himself prior and I think sooner or later this
0:23:27 > 0:23:32"a very farseeing man, was in many respects
0:23:32 > 0:23:35"a very farseeing man, as the ordinary average Southerner
0:23:35 > 0:23:39"a very farseeing man, in the northeastern area."
0:23:57 > 0:24:09Once partition occurred across the border and to engage
0:24:09 > 0:24:22so much to focus on to try to keep as a 26-county state that they had
0:24:22 > 0:24:27so much to focus on to try to keep or social energy to deal
0:24:27 > 0:24:38and the result was that there with the North in historical terms,
0:24:38 > 0:24:43people in the North. the reaction of the Protestant
0:24:48 > 0:24:53It was a long time before the Dublin
0:24:53 > 0:24:56It was a long time before the Dublin they were dealing with
0:25:47 > 0:25:54"Ample precaution should be taken and accept the Northern state.
0:25:54 > 0:26:06"handed over to the caught by us should be definitely
0:26:16 > 0:26:23Collins's reaction would've been
0:26:23 > 0:26:29Collins's reaction would've been or three days before this memo
0:26:29 > 0:26:34their men for training them and that he would bring
0:26:34 > 0:26:43their men for training at a later stage.
0:26:48 > 0:26:52To a certain extent,
0:26:52 > 0:26:58what Collins was proposing. government, and not
0:26:58 > 0:27:05about the effect of the policy of realism in what Blythe was saying
0:27:08 > 0:27:11together 'to discuss
0:27:11 > 0:27:26would approve.' 'something of which Michael Collins
0:28:19 > 0:28:40and we proceeded and sentenced to death and executed,
0:29:47 > 0:29:53"I heard a list of names to my usual place at the table,
0:29:53 > 0:30:04"As I took my seat, Barrett, O'Connor and McKelvey.
0:30:16 > 0:30:20my own suggestion forward,
0:30:20 > 0:30:24mentally accepted the suggestion
0:30:37 > 0:30:43And Christopher said that
0:30:43 > 0:31:08Although a certain amount and whiskey for the firing squad.
0:31:39 > 0:31:43the anti-treatyite IRA
0:31:50 > 0:31:58'are you still convinced that 'Well, looking back now,
0:31:58 > 0:32:00necessary and effective,
0:32:00 > 0:32:04years of turmoil
0:32:21 > 0:32:24of the cabinet,
0:32:26 > 0:32:29from that decision,
0:32:29 > 0:32:35There may have been stronger voices as a collective decision.
0:32:35 > 0:32:49it wasn't a collective decision.
0:33:19 > 0:33:22government would do.
0:33:35 > 0:33:49during that first period.
0:34:03 > 0:34:16He found him Blythe very much.
0:34:16 > 0:34:20for local government,
0:34:20 > 0:34:23in Cosgrave's mind
0:34:23 > 0:34:32to become minister for finance.
0:35:09 > 0:35:26who found himself Ulster-Scot Northerner
0:36:15 > 0:36:39There may have been a sense that
0:37:44 > 0:38:04a taker of very hard decisions As key decision-maker,
0:38:25 > 0:38:50and you could say it's with it would seem, is dead and gone,
0:39:28 > 0:39:43In 1918, the whole of Ireland
0:41:08 > 0:41:26To say that they were extremists
0:41:26 > 0:41:30they acted and looked very much
0:41:30 > 0:41:33the European fascist tradition.
0:41:33 > 0:41:51"Everything points
0:42:10 > 0:42:24"particularly school teachers been misbehaving,
0:42:24 > 0:42:41"to talk about any party will soon see how ridiculous it is
0:43:25 > 0:43:50..and you're as responsible
0:43:50 > 0:44:03without realising maybe He was quick to promote them
0:44:03 > 0:44:06to commit illegal acts,
0:44:06 > 0:44:13and he was one of the first what he was creating
0:45:35 > 0:45:38He debates it
0:45:38 > 0:46:08and he produces finally to the press
0:46:08 > 0:46:10and persuasion.
0:46:48 > 0:46:52his views were not shared
0:46:52 > 0:46:56at that time, which was a tragedy.
0:47:36 > 0:47:52the Protestant people of the North, which left the people,
0:48:02 > 0:48:12The Irish language is an essential
0:48:12 > 0:48:17separating us from England.
0:48:19 > 0:48:27And if I'm an Irishman, between Derbyshire and Lancashire.
0:48:27 > 0:48:31the language, but...
0:48:40 > 0:48:42Too late.
0:49:04 > 0:49:07THEY SING IN IRISH
0:49:46 > 0:49:48in schools,
0:49:48 > 0:49:59and indeed its determination to make for employment by the state,
0:50:20 > 0:50:24when we come to think of Blythe
0:50:24 > 0:50:45as perhaps the greatest Irish that he will go down primarily
0:51:29 > 0:51:47"In view of its history "and of its standing
0:52:36 > 0:52:49I think Blythe inherited that blunt Northern Protestant
0:53:48 > 0:54:29is that if the Ulsterman My thesis, or whatever it is,