Enigma de Blaghd

"and should be killed without mercy

opportunity arises."

people to murder.

prevails with some

yet there was a ruthlessness question about that,

who are going to exclude themselves "who comes of the people

"that we have the right to coerce

"but you cannot coerce them "and if we have the power to do so,

throughout the 32 counties of the fight against British forces

everyone down effectively. in the bottle and to stand

have General Sir Henry Wilson

been involved with himself prior using an IRB/IRA cadre that he'd

been involved with himself prior and I think sooner or later this

"a very farseeing man, was in many respects

"a very farseeing man, as the ordinary average Southerner

"a very farseeing man, in the northeastern area."

Once partition occurred across the border and to engage

so much to focus on to try to keep as a 26-county state that they had

so much to focus on to try to keep or social energy to deal

and the result was that there with the North in historical terms,

people in the North. the reaction of the Protestant

It was a long time before the Dublin

It was a long time before the Dublin they were dealing with

"Ample precaution should be taken and accept the Northern state.

"handed over to the caught by us should be definitely

Collins's reaction would've been

Collins's reaction would've been or three days before this memo

their men for training them and that he would bring

their men for training at a later stage.

To a certain extent,

what Collins was proposing. government, and not

about the effect of the policy of realism in what Blythe was saying

together 'to discuss

would approve.' 'something of which Michael Collins

and we proceeded and sentenced to death and executed,

"I heard a list of names to my usual place at the table,

"As I took my seat, Barrett, O'Connor and McKelvey.

my own suggestion forward,

mentally accepted the suggestion

And Christopher said that

Although a certain amount and whiskey for the firing squad.

the anti-treatyite IRA

'are you still convinced that 'Well, looking back now,

necessary and effective,

years of turmoil

of the cabinet,

from that decision,

There may have been stronger voices as a collective decision.

it wasn't a collective decision.

government would do.

during that first period.

He found him Blythe very much.

for local government,

in Cosgrave's mind

to become minister for finance.

who found himself Ulster-Scot Northerner

There may have been a sense that

a taker of very hard decisions As key decision-maker,

and you could say it's with it would seem, is dead and gone,

In 1918, the whole of Ireland

To say that they were extremists

they acted and looked very much

the European fascist tradition.

"Everything points

"particularly school teachers been misbehaving,

"to talk about any party will soon see how ridiculous it is

..and you're as responsible

without realising maybe He was quick to promote them

to commit illegal acts,

and he was one of the first what he was creating

He debates it

and he produces finally to the press

and persuasion.

his views were not shared

at that time, which was a tragedy.

the Protestant people of the North, which left the people,

The Irish language is an essential

separating us from England.

And if I'm an Irishman, between Derbyshire and Lancashire.

the language, but...

Too late.

THEY SING IN IRISH

in schools,

and indeed its determination to make for employment by the state,

when we come to think of Blythe

as perhaps the greatest Irish that he will go down primarily

"In view of its history "and of its standing

I think Blythe inherited that blunt Northern Protestant

is that if the Ulsterman My thesis, or whatever it is,