ONE hundred years ago today Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP was shot dead on the doorstep of his home at 36 Eaton Place in London, by two disabled veterans of the First World War, Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan.
The division of Ireland in 1921 was confirmed by a treaty that aimed to resolve the so-called Irish Question . A century on from that pivotal event, Charles Townshend explores five episodes in the process of Ireland s partition