The Irish War of Independence: Showdown in London (TRIH ep 579, part 4)
1921 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook recount the 1921 negotiations that produced the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the partition of Ireland. They set the scene with David Lloyd George's political position, his imperative to settle Ireland to preserve the Empire and his fragile coalition, and the global context of post‑World War I instability.
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Around 1921
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union (1924)