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    In Cold Blood

    Aug 02, 2022 4 minutes
    Review by Robert McNamara

    Ronan McGreevy, Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP, Faber & Faber, 2022, 464 pages, $27.95. ISBN 978–0571372805

    The one-hundredth anniversary of the assassination of Field Marshal Henry Wilson passed in June 2022. The killing of Wilson was one of the triggers for the outbreak of the Irish Civil War soon after. Ronan McGreevy, in his new book, argues that the event was “Ireland's Sarajevo.” It is a nice analogy. The truth was that Southern Ireland (Irish Free State after December 1922), like 1914 Europe, was a powder keg. Doctrinaire Irish republicans were bitterly opposed, to the point of violence, to the fetters on full

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