‘We English protest’—Margaret Buckmaster’s peace crusade

By Eugene Dunphy By late 1920, liberal-minded English men and women had grown weary of hearing daily reports from Ireland about the thuggish behaviour of the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries (‘Auxies’). ‘Not in our name’, was their response, when reading of the burning of Balbriggan and other acts of violence perpetrated by Crown ... Read more

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