British troops in the Upper Castle Yard in Dublin Castle, Ireland during the arrival of William Edward Forster, aka Buckshot Forster, (1818-1886), an English industrialist, philanthropist, Liberal Party statesman and a staunch advocate of lethal force against the Land League. On William Gladstone's return to office in 1880, he was made Chief Secretary for Ireland. On 24 January 1881, he introduced a Coercion Bill in the House of Commons, to deal with the growth of the Land League, and enabled the Irish government to arrest without trial persons "reasonably suspected" of crime and conspiracy.
British troops in the Upper Castle Yard in Dublin Castle, Ireland during the arrival of William Edward Forster (18181886), an English industrialist, philanthropist, Liberal Party statesman and a staunch advocate of lethal force against the Land League, a stance that earned him the nickname Buckshot Forster. On William Gladstone's return to office in 1880, he was made Chief Secretary for Ireland. On 24 January 1881, he introduced a Coercion Bill in the House of Commons, to deal with the growth of the Land League, and enabled the Irish government to arrest without trial persons "reasonably suspected" of crime and conspiracy. Soon after Charles Stewart Parnell was arrested on 13 October 1881, the Land League was proclaimed. From that time the danger to Forster's life became more apparent, and several plans to murder him were frustrated by the merest accidents.
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Location: Dublin Castle, Ireland
Photo credit: © De Luan / Alamy / Afripics
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