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Blindness and betrayal still bedevil Britain s policy in Ireland
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1 Jallianwala Bagh: A Groundbreaking History of the 1919 Massacre by VN Datta. Penguin Random House. Pages 248. Rs 399
Mani Shankar Aiyar
Owing to its association with the “frightfulness” of Dyer mercilessly mowing down 700 blameless Indians without cause, Baisakhi in April brings to mind the opening lines of TS Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’:
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of dead land, mixing
Memory with desire…
In 1969, on the 50th anniversary of the ghastly event, historian Vishwa Nath Datta, born and brought up in the vicinity of the Bagh and, therefore, personally acquainted with many of the survivors and loved ones of those brutally shot down, brought out this monograph of under 150 pages to tell the historical truth of what happened; why it happened; how participants and observers, British and Indian, reacted to the gory bloodletting of innocent hundreds; and what were its far-reaching consequences for Indo-British relations and the End
From the NS archive: The “fact” of partition 2 July 1921: How to end the guerrilla war in Ireland.
By mid 1921 it was clear that an end to the hostilities between the British state and Irish republicans was tangible. As the writer of this editorial put it: “The policy of martial law and ‘reprisals’ is played out. It cannot be maintained.” The prime minister, David Lloyd George, invited the republican leader É
amon de Valera to London for a conference to decide how to bring the fighting to an end and map out a future for the island of Ireland. At the time this piece was written, De Valera had yet to respond. He was, said the writer, in a difficult position, not least because he was not a “leader of outstanding intellectual distinction or moral authority”. Furthermore, he needed to weigh up conflicting messages coming from London – some adamant, others conciliatory. Above all, were peace to be achieved, the republicans needed to accept the fact that “‘parti
Former DUP leader Peter Robinson. Picture by Niall Carson, Press Association 16 January, 2021 01:00
President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State W.T Cosgrave, British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Sir James Craig at Chequers in 1924. Picture from Press Association
Former first minister Peter Robinson has said that Northern Ireland was not initially intended to be a permanent state.
The former DUP leader, widely regarded as one of unionism s most strategic thinkers, suggested that initial structures set up in the early 1920s showed partition was meant to be short-term .
Writing ahead of planned commemorations to mark the establishment of Northern Ireland later this year, he said: It is clear from the structures that were fashioned at the birth of Northern Ireland that our forefathers did not envisage creating a permanent state.
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