... imprisonment and internment in Britain. Attention is then given to re-organization efforts and gun-smuggling endeavours following their liberation in 1917. Finally, the plot to assassinate British politicians in London so as to prevent the implementation of conscription in Ireland is studied. Bolton Cardiff...

...This proposes a structure for a labour history of rank and file British professional soldiers, including a brief historiography of relevant research and publication. It defines types of nineteenth century military service, though argues that quasi-conscription often supplemented voluntary...

... Brian Royal Air Force conscription Ireland House of Commons UK Leslie Shane Ulster Defence Volunteers Ulster Home Guard Ulster Volunteer Force Belfast propaganda women Bates Richard Dawson British government Brooke Sir Basil Catholic Church Guinness family Volunteers Project Archive...

... intent on consolidating the Irish National Volunteers than recruiting into the army. Conscription, marked by endemic opposition and recurring scares, remained a key issue. In 1914, the fear of being called up rivalled the power of collective sacrifice. The narrative will then address 1915’s campaigns...

... of 1915 and from then until mid-1918 there were few examples of properly concerted recruiting activities. The conscription crisis saw Joseph Devlin, MP, who had firmly encouraged Irish National Volunteers to enlist in the British army in 1914-15, condemning British government policy. bands Carson Sir...

..., as propaganda activities operated in the context of Irish Home Rule in 1914-15, during the Easter Rising in 1916, and the Conscription Crisis in 1918. It also places their activities within the wider British context, particularly drawing comparisons with the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (PRC...

..., British officials continually regarded it as inadequate, threatening to introduce conscription in 1918. This book reflects on the disparity of sacrifice between North-East Ulster and the rest of Ireland, urban and rural Ireland, and Ireland and Great Britain....