Open AccessNew Zealand’s Responses to the 1916 Rising
Author(s) -
Charles Ferrall
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of new zealand studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
0eISSN - 2324-3740
pISSN - 1176-306X
DOI - 10.26686/jnzs.ins33.7391
Subject(s) - prime minister , irish , archbishop , george (robot) , history , prime (order theory) , law , economic history , classics , art history , political science , politics , philosophy , linguistics , mathematics , combinatorics
When the Irish-born Archbishop of Melbourne heard that Michael Collins had been executed, he broke down weeping: “Michael they have shot him”. According to one of his biographers, Brenda Niall, “[s]omething in Daniel Mannix was released in the aftermath of the Easter Rising” and he was soon to play a decisive role in defeating two conscription referenda. The Australian Prime Minister, Billy Hughes, later complained to the British Prime Minister, David Lloyd-George, that the Irish had “killed conscription”.