An Irish Empire?: Aspects of Ireland and the British Empire

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Keith Jeffery
Manchester University Press, 1996 - Grande-Bretagne - Relations - Irlande - 224 pages
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Page 7
'I need not enlarge to you', he wrote to Lloyd George, 'the importance of the Irish
question for the Empire as a whole.'31 Smuts drafted a statement for the King to
make in Belfast which embodied the South African's optimistic faith in the Empire.
Page 20
27 W. K. Hancock, Smuts: the Fields of Force, 1919-1950, Cambridge, ... 30
Among those pressing Smuts to use his considerable influence towards a
solution of the Irish crisis were Sir Horace Plunkett and Roger Casement's
brother, Tom.
Page 197
[I]t may be that a time will come when some Irishmen on Irish soil will be able to
repeat the speech - made by General Smuts in Cape Town a few days ago, in
which he said, 'The Union Government would welcome the early admission of ...

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Contents

Introduction Keith Jeffery page
1
Ireland the Empire and film Jeffrey Richards
25
Ireland sport and empire Alan Bairner
57
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About the author (1996)

Keith Jeffery was educated in Ireland, the USA and Cambridge (St John's College). In 2005 he came to Queen's, where he is Professor of British History, after teaching at the Ulster Polytechnic and the University of Ulster for over twenty years. Jeffery was awarded the Templer Medal from the Society for Army Historical Research in 2007 for the best book of the year (his biography of Sir Henry Wilson) on British Military History. Professor Jeffery has written a biography of the Irishman, Sir Henry Wilson, who was professional head of the British army in 1918-22. He has also been working on a history of the British empire. In 2005 Jeffery was appointed to write the first Official History of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), covering the years 1909-49 (Bloomsbury Publishing September 2010).

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TitleAn Irish Empire?: Aspects of Ireland and the British Empire
Studies in imperialism
EditorKeith Jeffery
PublisherManchester University Press, 1996
ISBN0719038731, 9780719038730
Length224 pages
  
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