The Irish Revolution Channel's video: Churchill Ireland

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/X0HSNE8 Please consider supporting the channel. Anything you contribute would be a great help. The picture at 06:43 shows the aftermath of the burning of Cork City, where British forces burnt down the city in a reprisal atrocity, a policy officially and unofficially endorsed by Winston Churchill The 7,000 soldiers killed doesn't refer to Ireland, if that isn't clear already. Help support the channel by shopping through the amazon affiliates programme: Churchill & Ireland by Paul Bew - https://amzn.to/2DGoryG Chuchill by Roy Jenkins - https://amzn.to/2DFq7IO (I consulted quite a few Churchill biographies - there are more books about him than drunks in the Phoenix Park) Atlas of the Irish Revolution - https://amzn.to/2zGkyXn Edward Carson by ATQ Stewart - https://amzn.to/2yhQqzK Judging W.T. Cosgrave by Michael Laffan - https://amzn.to/2P1EER1 Judging Dev by Diarmuid Ferriter - https://amzn.to/2RwMiVp The Irish War of Independence by Michael Hopkinson - https://amzn.to/2ygvMji Easter 1916 by Charles Townshend - https://amzn.to/2DEfhTn The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence by Charles Townshend - https://amzn.to/2QJrKrW Political Violence in Ireland by Charles Townshend - https://amzn.to/2DoR3vG Fatal Path: British Government & Irish Revolution by Ronan Fanning - https://amzn.to/2zTa5XF I'm well aware that Paul Bew is a unionist historian so don't feel the need to point that out in the comments. Also, unless otherwise stated, you can assume any biographical picture shown here will be of Winston Churchill. Here's a glossary of terms: Ancient Order of Hibernians - a fraternal organisation utilised by constitutionalist Home Rule nationalists. Black & Tans/Auxiliaries - Demobilised British soldiers recruited to replace the ailing RIC in Ireland and to wage war against the IRA. The War of Independence is sometimes known as 'the Tan War' Dáil Courts - Revolutionary court system which supplanted the British one Dáil Éireann - Revolutionary parliament set up by Sinn Fein MPs RIC - Royal Irish Constabulary (Irish Police) RUC - Royal Ulster Constabulary (Northern Irish police - created later) A Specials - Full time special police created for Ulster B Specials - Part time 'paramilitary' police C Specials - A sort of reserve police who weren't really used IRA - Irish Republican Army - previously the Irish Volunteers IRB - Irish Republican Brotherhood - a secret revolutionary society. Not endorsed by all the revolutionaries. Unionist - Those loyal to the British crown, who wish to remain part of the United Kingdom Republican - Those who desired an independent Irish Republic Nationalist - also the Home Rulers, who wanted a devolved administration in Dublin. Sinn Fein - The political wing of the IRA, Republicans. Partition - the division of Ireland between the 26 county Free State to the South and the 6 county 'statelet' to the North, Northern Ireland. I'll update this list as we go along. Twitter: http://twitter.com/IrishRevYouTube Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Irish-Revolution-622343078111039 Many thanks to irishelectionliterature.com - They have some great content over there. Full credit given to Wikimedia Commons, NLI Flickr page, PRONI Flickr page, the bureau of military history... Anti-Home Rule monument by Hajotthu [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)] Mc Swiney busy by CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81298 Croke Park memorial by By Pytheas84 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28095708