Letters From The Wasteland

Letters From The Wasteland

A Century Ago, Britain Barely Avoided A Conservative-Driven Civil War

The conservative reasoning of Ulster's supporters in 1914 echoes in today's Republican Party as they escalate their assault on minorities and democracy

Thad Zajac
Aug 31, 2023
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Easter Rebellion, Dublin, Ireland, 1916.


The United Kingdom of England, Scotland, and Ireland, as they were known at the time in 1912, was easily the world’s strongest power. The popular maxim of the Victorian and Edwardian eras was “The sun never sets on the British Empire,” and from Canada, the Falkland Islands, and a number of Caribbean islands to Egy…

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