British signals intelligence and the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland
Accepted version
Peer-reviewed
Repository URI
Repository DOI
Change log
Authors
Larsen, D
Abstract
Historians for decades have placed Room 40, the First World War British naval signals intelligence organization, at the centre of narratives about the British anticipation of and response to the Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916. A series of crucial decrypts of telegrams between the German embassy in Washington and Berlin, it has been believed, provided significant advance intelligence about the Rising before it took place. This article upends previous accounts by demonstrating that Room 40 possessed far less advance knowledge about the Rising than has been believed, with most of the supposedly key decrypts not being generated until months after the Rising had taken place.
Description
Keywords
4408 Political Science, 44 Human Society
Journal Title
Intelligence and National Security
Conference Name
Journal ISSN
0268-4527
1743-9019
1743-9019
Volume Title
Publisher
Taylor & Francis