{"id":70,"date":"2015-04-04T10:10:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T09:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.lycee.nl\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2015-09-24T05:42:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T04:42:18","slug":"background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/?page_id=70","title":{"rendered":"The Sniper: Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><strong>Historical Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><strong><em><span lang=\"en-US\">In 1919, the newly formed Irish Republican Army launched guerilla warfare during the Irish War of Independence to liberate Ireland from the British. Unable to contain the rebels, London agreed in the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty to create an Irish Free State. However, the agreement would recognize the Free State only as a dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations. Moreover, it would permit six counties in northern Ireland to withdraw from the Free State, allow the British to maintain ports in the south, and require the Free State to pay part of the debt Britain incurred in waging the war. Consequently, not all Irishmen accepted the agreement, the provisions of which became effective in 1922. (The six northern counties seceded, as expected.) Once-united Irish fighters were now split into two factions<\/span>\u2014<span lang=\"en-US\">disgruntled IRA members and supporters of the Free State<\/span>\u2014<span lang=\"en-US\">and fought a civil war. O<\/span><span lang=\"fr-FR\">\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Flaherty, himself a member of the IRA, centers his short story on a scene of fighting in Dublin in which an IRA sniper shoots at Free Staters from a rooftop.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historical Background In 1919, the newly formed Irish Republican Army launched guerilla warfare during the Irish War of Independence to liberate Ireland from the British. Unable to contain the rebels, London agreed in the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty to create an Irish Free State. However, the agreement would recognize the Free State only as a dominion<span class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}