Home Rule, Violence & the Irish Question: The Prime time Debate

Claire Byrne hosts a Prime Time discussion with John Bruton, Kevin Myers, Michael McDowell and Éamon O Cuiv on the centenary of the Home Rule Bill becoming law in 1914. Broadcast: 16 September 2014.
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[@1969JohnnyM]

If Bruton went back a 100 years he'd be in Westminster and a loyal subject of the Queen.

[@dpj1]

Interesting debate, shame it wasn't longer!

[@johnnylackland3992]

Americans and Irish-Americans in particular need to see this video. Video muy bien hecho , mi amigo.

[@oneman4412]

Listening to Micheal Mc Dowell is a breath of fresh air, one of the finest and diplomatic, political debaters we ever produced.

[@tomgreene8480]

Was violence not threatened y Lloyd George?? Contracts carried out under duress?? Any barristers out there??

[@matty9460]

why aren't the historians on the panel?

[@Jacktheripper27]

We are not going anywhere.

[@f.b508]

Get a Sinn Fein TD on the panel. Home rule.

[@ethanomcbride]

I appreciate what was said about what was said about avoiding violence.

[@stpat7614]

2:30

[@DMG118]

Look at how Irish Catholics were treated in the north between partition and the 1980s. That's how Britain would have continued to treat all the Irish people. These West Brits have a revisionist view of history.

[@suzannebarry6244]

The lasts words of James connerlly.

[@f.b508]

Bruton is a typical west brit

[@robertewing3114]

De Valera would not agree, he totally agreed with the British Empire leadership in September 1938, he accepted that Chamberlain abhorred war and risked his premiership in the event of Hitler invading Czechoslovakia that month. Generalisations are colourful and harmful, Dev himself spoke for war in a way Chamberlain would not have. Agus we don't have to accept the UK and USA bias against Chamberlain, we are not Czechoslovakia, we can say Munich was Canning in action, and we can indeed think for ourselves and agree with Roosevelts simple telegram to Chamberlain, Good man.

[@aor3220]

'Home Rule was achieved in 1914 and there was no going back on it'' Except the British government introduced a massive amendment to the Home Rule Bill in 1915 and that was partition wherby Ulster would be excluded from Home Rule & simultaneously the Ulster unonist veto over the majority population of Ireland is introduced which was uttelry disastrous for the remanider of the 20th century.

[@willv2011]

vat and children's shoes

[@carloshannon8346]

How the Irish Free State treated returning Irish heroes from France and Flanders was a disgrace

[@westbrit4714]

My grandfather voted SF in 1918 because he thought if they got a strong showing the Brit's would move forward with home rule , this was a vote my grandmother never let him forget as bloodshed , partition and Irish poverty and falling population ( particularly of us Prods) resulted for the rest of their lives

[@patrickbrady447]

Did I really hear Mr Bruton say India got their independence whitout voilance

[@DennisLove-qs3uj]

So many traitors gathered together.