The Hay Plan & Conscription In Ireland During WW1

1. Alan J. Ward, 'Lloyd George and the 1918 Irish Conscription Crisis', The Historical Journal, Vol. XVII,no. 1, 1974, p.111.
2. David Lloyd George, War Memoirs, Vol.2. (Odhams Press, London, 1938), p. 1598.
3. Lloyd George, War Memoirs, p. 1598.
4. Ibid.
5. Lloyd George, War Memoirs, p. 1599.
6. Ibid.
7. Alan J. Ward, 'Lloyd George and the 1918 Irish Conscription Crisis', p. 115.
8. Lloyd George, War Memoirs, p. 1599.
9. Ward, 'Lloyd George and the 1918 Irish Conscription Crisis', p. 113.
10. Cork Examiner, 5 April 1918.
11. Cork Examiner, 8 April 1918.
12. Irish Independent, 9 April 1918.
13. Tomas Ó Fiaich, 'The Irish Bishops and The Conscription Issue 1918', The Capuchin Annual, 1968, p.351.
14. Ó Fiaich, 'The Irish Bishops and The Conscription Issue 1918', p.351.
15. Ó Fiaich, 'The Irish Bishops and The Conscription Issue 1918', p. 353.
16. Ó Fiaich, 'The Irish Bishops and The Conscription Issue 1918', p. 354.
17. Ibid.
18. Cork Examiner, 10 April 1918.
19. Cork Examiner, 11 April 1918.
20. Irish Independent, 12 April 1918.
21. Ibid., 12 April 1918.
22. David G. Boyce, 'British Opinion, Ireland, and the War 1916-1918' , The Historical Journal, Vol. XVII, no.1, 1974, p. 587.
23. Ward, 'Lloyd George and the 1918 Irish Conscription Crisis', p.115.
24. Ibid.
25. Irish Independent,15 April 1918.
26. Cork Examiner, 18 April 1918.
27. Ó Fiaich, 'The Irish Bishops and The Conscription Issue 1918' p.355.
28. Ó Fiaich, 'The Irish Bishops and The Conscription Issue 1918' p.356.
29. Ó Fiaich, 'The Irish Bishops and The Conscription Issue 1918' p.356.
30. NLI, MS 15653, William O' Brien folder (2).
31. Ibid.
32. Cork Examiner, 19 April 1918.
33. Cork Examiner,22April 1918.
34. O' Halpin, 'The Decline of the Union: British Government in Ireland 1892- 1920', p.155.
35. Ward, 'Lloyd George and the 1918 Irish Conscription Crisis', p. 118.
36. Cork Examiner, 26 April 1918.
37. O' Halpin, 'The Decline of the Union: British Government in Ireland 1892- 1920', p.157.
38. Jerome aan de Wiel, 'The 'Hay Plan': an account of Anglo-French recruitment efforts in Ireland, August 1918, Irish Sword, Vol. XXI, no. 86, Winter 1999, p.435.
39. Freeman's Journal, 6 May 1918.
40. Wiel, 'The Hay Plan', p. 436.
41. Ibid,
42. Ward, 'Lloyd George and the 1918 Irish Conscription Crisis', pp. 109-110.
43. Ward, 'Lloyd George and the 1918 Irish Conscription Crisis', p.110.
44. Ward, 'Lloyd George and the 1918 Irish Conscription Crisis', p.118
45. Ibid.
46. Ward, 'Lloyd George and the 1918 Irish Conscription Crisis', pp118-119
47. Ward, 'Lloyd George and the 1918 Irish Conscription Crisis', p.119.
48. CAI, de Roiste papers, U271A, Book 20, de Roiste journal, 18 May 1918.
49. Wiel, 'The Hay Plan', p. 436.
50. Ward, 'Lloyd George and the 1918 Irish Conscription Crisis', p.119.
51. ibid.
52. ibid.
53. Cork Examiner, 24 May 1918.
54. Freeman's Journal, 25 May 1918.
55. Ward, 'Lloyd George and the 1918 Irish Conscription Crisis', p.122.
56. ibid.
57. ibid.
58. No Conscription! Ireland's Case Re-Stated, Address to the President of the United States of America from the Mansion House Conference, 11 June 1918, p.4.
59. Wiel, 'The Hay Plan', p. 438.
60. ibid.
61. ibid.
62. Wiel, 'The Hay Plan', p. 439.
63. ibid.
64. ibid.
65. Ward, 'Lloyd George and the 1918 Irish Conscription Crisis', p.118.
66. Wiel, 'The Hay Plan', p. 439.
67. ibid.
68. Ward, 'Lloyd George and the 1918 Irish Conscription Crisis', p.122.
69. ibid.
70. Wiel, 'The Hay Plan', p. 440.
71. ibid.
72. Wiel, 'The Hay Plan', p. 441.
73. Wiel, 'The Hay Plan', pp. 441- 442.
74. Wiel, 'The Hay Plan', p. 441.
75. Wiel, 'The Hay Plan', p. 442.
76. Ibid.
77. Ibid.
78. Ibid.
79. Ibid.
80. Ibid.
81. Ibid.
82. Wiel, 'The Hay Plan', p. 443.
83. Ibid.
84. Ibid.
85. Ibid.
86. Ibid.
87. Freeman's Journal, 23 September 1918.

Author: Dave Hennessy