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“The obsession with show; the importance of the pose; the decline of the spiritual and the rise of the material; an undue concentration of wealth among a privileged few, many of whose new recruits lacked the philanthropic impulse of an earlier generation -- all these provided the stuff of the moral, intellectual and industrial that made this an age of decadence.”
― The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914
― The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914
“which Redmond had presided ‘to efficiently arm and equip the National Volunteers of Dublin City’, even though a proclamation had just been issued forbidding the sales of rifles and ammunition. ‘Subscriptions amounting to £642 were raised on the spot.’ It is not clear whether Redmond’s followers wanted the rifles to arm against republicans or Unionists. Despite the United Kingdom’s national emergency, many Irish seemed to be arming themselves against another enemy.”
― Staring at God: Britain in the Great War
― Staring at God: Britain in the Great War
