Challenges to Democracy and the Rigged System

How close did Britain come to a civil war over the issue of Irish Home Rule? We talk about the long parliamentary road led by Parnell, the settler trick culminating in the seditious maneuvers in Ulster, and the final passage of the Home Rule Bill, rendered inoperative by World War I. This issue will be … Continue reading "World War Civ 22: Irish Home Rule and Britain’s near-civil war before 1914"