29 May 2015
The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 25
Conceived by the First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, the attempted British invasion of the Turkish peninsula of Gallipoli, at huge cost in lives, was a military and political disaster for the British and their allies. Its failure destabilised the Liberal government of HH Asquith which had governed with the support of Redmond’s Irish Party. On 25 May, to shore up the Government, Asquith formed a new Cabinet, bringing on board the Conservative and Unionist Party. The ‘Irish Volunteer’ declared:
“The ‘Home Rule Government’ has come to an end and Home Rule has not come to a beginning. We are now under a Unionist-Liberal coalition, and a Unionist-Liberal coalition means for Ireland a Unionist government, nothing else.”
The Cabinet now included Unionist leader Edward Carson, who was made Attorney General of England, and a range of Tories who were his allies in the campaign against Home Rule. This would further undermine Redmond with profound implications for Irish politics, as reflected repeatedly in the pages of the paper.
Continuing its weekly series on ‘Victories of Irregular Troops’ the paper describes approvingly the victory of the Zulus over the British Army at Isandlwana in Southern Africa in 1879.
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