Britain and Ireland

Book section

Authors: Gregory, A

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Host title: A Companion to World War I
• Pages: 403-417
• Publication date: 2010-03-19
• DOI: 10.1002/9781444323634.ch27
• ISBN: 9781405123860
• Keywords: Belgium's War Legacy - particularities of Belgium's war experience influencing its postwar history, its position in the world; The Cenotaph in Whitehall and Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey - memorials to the dead of the British Empire; The "khaki election", victory to Conservative-Unionists and "Liberal" allies (December 1918); Pirenne's Histoire de Belgique, defining the country's raison d'être - status as a heterogeneous, voluntarily cohesive microcosm of Western Europe; Britain and Ireland, threat over relationship between Britain and Ireland; Home rule for Ireland, conservative party opposition to liberal party and Irish parliamentary party; Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs), young middle-class women volunteering as nurses; British Expeditionary Force (BEF) to France, career soldiers and reservists - western front stabilization; Defence of the Realm Act (DORA), isolation and imprisonment of suspected subversives - industrial "appeasement" granting "war bonuses"