Ronan McGreevy: The Assassination of Sir Henry Wilson MP (1922)

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2 жыл бұрын

Almost exactly a century ago, on 22 June 1922, a series of gunshots rang out in Belgravia, London. Out of this polite neighbourhood, home to powerful politicians and wealthy financiers, a shocking news story quickly spread. Field Marshall Sir Henry Wilson, MP, one of the great heroes of the Great War had been assassinated.
Who was responsible, why it mattered, and what happened next is the subject of an incisive, absorbing new book called Great Hatred, by the Irish Times journalist Ronan McGreevy. As McGreevy explains in this episode of Travels Through Time, the bullets that were fired that day in Belgravia did not just cause one death. They led very soon afterwards to an equally significant other.
Ronan McGreevy’s Great Hatred: the Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, MP, is newly issued in hardback by Faber.
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Show notes
Scene One: Liverpool Street Station at 12.50pm on June 22nd, 1922: Henry Wilson unveils a war memorial.
Scene Two: 36 Eaton Place at 2.30pm on June 22nd 1922: Henry Wilson is murdered on his own doorstep.
Scene Three: Béal na Bláth (the Mouth of the Flowers), Co Cork August 22nd, 1922: Michael Collins is shot dead by anti-Treaty forces in an ambush.
Momento: Henry Wilson’s sword.
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Presenter: Peter Moore
Guest: Ronan McGreevy
Production: Maria Nolan
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@ThisWeekintheItalianCampaign 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Ronan. Southern Unionists were not peripheral, but key proponents of the idea of British Empire. Their garrison-mentality shaped by the reality that they were a minority in a culturally-alien society inspired generations of British Army officers and equipped them psychologically to deal with colonial people who they both ruled and nurtured wherever they went. As you know, they provided many of the officers of the Irish Brigade in the Second World War; chips off Wilson's block. This community has largely disappeared.

@michaelgallagher5852 Жыл бұрын

The two men were soldiers in the world I one 1914 to 1918. The battle sommelier, are from London but one of them lost the leg in France 🇫🇷? Field Marshall Henry Williamson was assassinated by two Londoners.

@michaelgallagher5852 7 ай бұрын

It was two ex British soldiers who fought in the first world war. Two of them were born in London. They never fought in 1916. Henry willison came from Longford he was ordered an Irish High ranked officer. Actually, he absolutely got shot dead 💀 on 1922.