Lloyd George Flashcards
How many counties did the partition include? (Northern Ireland)
6
What year did Lloyd George become PM?
1916 👦
How many counties did the partition include? (Southern Ireland)
26 🎉
What year is conscription extended to Ireland?
1918
What did Lloyd George call the IRA?
a ‘Murder Gang’ 😨
Why was DLG initially hesitant to treat the IRA as real combatants?
He felt they were alien to the mass of 🍀Irish people 🍀
Who were the ‘Black-Tans’?
Tough ex-WWI soldiers fighting in the Anglo-Irish war on behalf of Westminster 👎🤬😡
Who were the ‘Auxis’?
Brutal and often ill-disciplined ex-army officers, fighting on behalf of Westminster in the Anglo-Irish war 🔫🔪
How many soldiers did Lloyd George suggest would be needed to subjugate Ireland?
100,000 🚑🚑🚑
What was Ireland granted as a result of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921?
Full control of Domestic affairs
Membership of the British Empire 🤑
What did Ireland concede to Westminster in the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921?
Allegiance to the crown 👸
3 Naval bases 🚢⛵🚤
A boundary commission in Ulster
What marked the beginning of the Anglo-Irish war for independence?
Setting up of the Dail 👨👩👦👨👩👦👨👩👧👨👩👧👦👨👩👦👦
What was the Government’s initial response to the Anglo-Irish war?
Sinn Fein and IRA outlawed
Special powers of arrest, imprisonment and arms control introduced 👨✈️👩✈️
Attempts made to ban revolutionary publications
What was Lloyd George’s role in Asquith’s government?
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Was the Anglo-Irish treaty popular?
In Britain - yes 🤵
Irish population - No 👨🌾
IRA leadership - Yes (knew could not sustain a war)
