Mutiny in Listowel and India | June - July 1920 - Episode 26

June 1920 saw the new military figures appointed to take charge of policing in Ireland prepare the ground for legislation which would give British forces a freer hand in dealing with the IRA. However, attempts to use the RIC to assist the army as scouts started a mutiny in Kerry and the publication of an inflammatory speech given by the Divisional Commissioner led to his killing a few weeks later. At the other side of the world reports of conditions in Ireland caused many Irishmen in the Connaught Ranger to refuse to carry out military duties. As British tactics in Ireland hardened, this was a sign of the resistance they would face.
References:
Jeremiah Mee - www.militaryarc...
Gerald and Osbert Smyth - www.sinton-fam...
The Connaught Rangers’ Mutiny of 1920 - independentlef...
The Connaught Ranger’s Mutiny June 1920 - www.historyire...
The Connaught Rangers’ Mutiny India, July 1920 - www.historyire...
T. Ryle Dwyer - “Tans, Terror and Troubles”
D.M. Leeson - “The Black and Tans”
William Sheehan - “Hearts & Mines”
Paul McMahon - “British Spies & Irish Rebels”
D.M. Leeson - “The Black & Tans”
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Main Sources:
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Diarmuid Lynch, Irish Revolutionary - diarmuidlynch.w...
Atlas of the Irish Revolution
Maurice Walsh - “Bitter Freedom”
Charles Townshend - "The Republic"
Michael Hopkinson - ”The Irish War of Independence”
Diarmuid Ferriter - “A Nation and not a Rabble”
Richard Abbot - “Police Casualties in Ireland 1919 - 1922”
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Love these videos love learning more and more about irish history keep up the good work 👍🇮🇪

[@TheIrishNationLives]

Cheers, thanks for the support

[@TheIrishNationLives]

A few sound issues with this episode, did my best to minimise them so I hope they aren't too bad. You'd think I'd know what I was doing after 25 episodes! On the recent Hawks and Doves episode I've heard Gerald Smyth's name pronounced to rhyme with "hide" or "tide", but this is usually spelled Smythe. I've gone with a pronunciation which rhymes with "myth"

[@warrenhollowbooks]

I like the fact, of all things, that you mentioned Egypt. I feel too often Post-WWI matters are taken in such little isolated examinations. The overreach of the British Empire in the period of 1918-22 is examined too little as a unit; whether it was Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, India, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, Anatolia, or even Scotland(in 1919) the English faced significant push back.
(And I didn't even mention Russia)

[@TheIrishNationLives]

Thanks. I've noticed that the War of Independence is often dealt with in total isolation from the events which where happening outside Ireland at the time and some books even brush over de Valera in America, the IRA in Britain and the Connaught Mutiny. I think it allows for a narrative that Ireland fought the British Empire single handily instead of being just one part of a larger struggle. Other than Maurice Walsh's "Bitter Freedom" I've haven't seen any books that deal with Ireland in the wider context of the time.

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@@TheIrishNationLives I have always been interested in how this affected Cabinet thinking on Ireland and vice versa; I have a book on the Chanak Crisis on my short term reading list right now. I have also wondered how all these Imperial "adventures" filling the news affected American public opinion during the League of Nations debate in the United States. They couldn't have been NOT affected by the reports in the press about how the war to end all wars hadn't made the British Empire peaceful.

[@TheIrishNationLives]

Great questions. I'd say it resulted in their insistence that the IRA had to be defeated before negotiations could begin, they didn't want it to be seen that such tactics influenced them in case others tried. I've never heard anything about America's reaction to troubles in the British Empire.

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[@KevinKIELYPOET]

Exceptional CZcamss by James Nagle...great credit to him for his work...

[@petergrossett9236]

This series is gold. Green , white, and, gold!

[@brianfeely9239]

Excellent work. Thank you so much.

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Go on home british soldier

[@joehart7260]

Fascinating. My uncle was one of the Connaught Rangers arrested but not subsequently charged, although he does get a mention in T P Kilfeather's book on the Rangers.

[@donnchahassey8086]

Another quality episode. Go hiontach

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Thanks for checking it out