An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List

338: Ireland: Home Rule, Mutiny - and Civil War? (Part 3)

June 05, 2023

Description

The year is 1912. The bitter arguments about Home Rule for Ireland are reaching boiling point. But with Ulster in uproar, the Tories encouraging mutiny and thousands of rifles pouring into...
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Books Referenced

The Northumbrians

Author: Dan Jackson

Context:

Mentioned as Dan Jackson's book about the history and culture of the North East, which both hosts nominated as a history book of the year when it was published

Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain

Author: Dan Jackson

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Described as Dan Jackson's doctoral thesis published in 2009 by Liverpool University Press, which forms the basis for his expertise on the episode's topic

Fatal Path

Author: Ronan Fanning

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Mentioned as a book by Irish historian Ronan Fanning that both Tom and Dominic read, which revealed the extent of anti-Catholic and anti-Irish sentiment among Liberal Party leaders like Asquith and Lloyd George

The Strange Death of Liberal England

Author: George Dangerfield

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Referenced as George Dangerfield's famous book when discussing the febrile atmosphere of the period, particularly confrontations over trade union disputes in 1911

The Riddle of the Sands

Author: Erskine Childers

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Mentioned as a novel written in 1903 by Erskine Childers, whose yacht was used to import guns via Howth for the Irish volunteers

King Solomon's Mines

Author: H. Rider Haggard

Context:

Referenced in passing when discussing the Edwardian era's obsession with manliness and brotherhood, noting they had done a previous podcast about this book published about 20 years earlier