Anglo-Irish War (Quotes) 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryIreland 1900-1925A2/A-levelCCEA Created by: kbuick429Created on: 09-05-17 11:53 Alvin Jackson "by the summer of 1921 the military balance was shifting in favour of the British" 1 of 13 Michael Collins "could not have lasted another 3 weeks" (truce) 2 of 13 Cardinal Logue "it is hard to believe that the intelligent members of any Christian political party could sanction or sympathise with crime" 3 of 13 AJP Taylor "an autonomous terror squad" 4 of 13 Robert Kee "increasingly, it was horror at the reprisals and the special moral indignation aroused by acts of lawlessness" 5 of 13 Lloyd George "there is no doubt that the indiscipline, looting and drunkeness in the RIC's is alienating great numbers" 6 of 13 John Murphy "the pressure of British public opinion meant a truce, followed by negotiations, was only a matter of time" 7 of 13 H.H Asquith "things are being done in Ireland which would disgrace the blackest annals of the lowest despotism in Europe" 8 of 13 Labour Party Commission "blackened Britain's name in the eyes of the world" 9 of 13 An Editorial from the Times - 1919 "some solution must be found, for the condition in Ireland" 10 of 13 Prime Minister Smuts of South Africa "unless the Irish question is settled on the great principles which form the basis of this Empire" 11 of 13 Michael Hopkinson "the option for Martial law for the whole of Ireland and a vast stepping up of troop numbers had proved unpalatable" 12 of 13 Paul Canning "the Truce came at a convenient time for both sides" 13 of 13
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