Murdered MP Sir Henry Wilson to be remembered at Westminster
A plaque was unveiled in the House of Commons on Wednesday to remember an Ulster Unionist MP who was shot dead by Irish republicans 100 years ago.He was elected MP for North Down in February 1922.
The Commons Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, hosted a short ceremony in the chamber to remember Sir Henry before the start of business. "I think it's up to us, as the inheritors of what that generation gave us, to ensure that his memory will be forever in this place at Westminster." Whatever the reason, the killing is widely regarded as one of the key factors which led to the outbreak of civil war in Ireland soon afterwards.Britain blamed the killing on anti-Treaty republicans and put pressure on the pro-Treaty provisional government in Dublin to take a tougher stance.The historian Prof Fearghal McGarry, from Queen's University in Belfast, said Sir Henry's reputation as a military hardliner made him a hate-figure for Irish republicans.
"Wilson's killers - Reggie Dunne and Joe O'Sullivan - were born in England, they had English accents.
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