Ronan Fanning and the resonances of the history of a century ago
A few years ago at a conference in King’s College London, the Irish historian Ronan Fanning who has just died could still get hot under collar about how the British politicians Asquith and Lloyd George exploited Irish Home Rule for their own political ends. We were about to enter the decade of commemoration culminating in the centenary of the anniversary of the Easter Rising, when these tumultuous events were being relived and tested for their relevance to the Troubles and …