Posted by David Chorley on May 01, 2002 at 13:46:04 from 206.230.48.254:
In Reply to: Erskine Childers: WasDo Agents Have to be Consistent..? posted by Terence McManus on April 22, 2002 at 03:31:22:
I think you'll find he was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, along with Michael Collins: they principally differed from the IRA in that they wanted to compromise with the UK Govt on the lease of (AFAIK) 4 naval bases until 1937 which DeValera did not want to do... The IRA won out and (murdered/Shot/executed) a lot more people than the British did in the Easter uprising and the Black and Tan disaster. DeValera eventually accepted the naval base compromise anyway.
Politicians are not consistant, so why should agents be?
David