The Xinhai Revolution in the Irish Press: The Birth of the Republic of China as a Medium of the Easter Rising Debate

Ireland played an important role to end the British Empire. At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, the discussions were bringing to the forefront the malaise of many subjugated people, the racial discrimination was still rampant and the unequal treatment among winners was evident even though the peace talking process was going to establish one of the most modern and still very actual institution, the League of Nations. The paper compares the Xinhai Revolution to the Easter Rising scrutinizing the Irish newspapers to assess the Irish reaction to the Chinese revolutionary cause, and so it focuses on: nationalism vs. imperialism, the reformist and the revolutionary reaction, the revolutionaries, the use of violence as a legitimated political tool, the revolutions, the republic and the war, the politicization of the masses, World War One and the Paris Peace Conference, and the economic interests at stake.