`."System- "Systemgla-"System--@Times New Roman--- 42 x`cAppointment of Macready as         2 xN cCommander    2 xc- 2 xcin   2 xc- 72 xcChief of the British Army in         @Times New Roman--------- 2 `cIreland ---  2 c  @Times New Roman--------- 52 `cIntroduction from Chronology       ---  2 Sc  @Times New Roman--- C2 `%cGeneral Nevil Macready made commander          2 c- 2 cin   2 c- @2 #cchief of British forces in Ireland         @Times New Roman---------------  2 `cr \2 g6ceplacing General Frederick Shaw (and takes up duty on                 2 cApril   2 5c  2 :c14 --- 2 Ncth--- 2 W c). Macready,     |2 `Kcwho was at the time was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London,                 2 `Qcdid not want the post. In his memoirs he said that it was only out of a sense of                       .2 `cloyalty to his old Chi        a2 9cef, John French (Lord Lieutenant) that he was persuaded                  )2 1`cto take up the job.        2 1c  --- 2 M`cMore   2 Mc  2 McDetail   2 Mc  2 M con Macready     2 M+c  --- w2 i`HcMacready had written to Macpherson when he was made Chief Secretary for                     2 ~`ScIreland as follows: I do not envy you for I loathe the country that you are going                      2 `cto   2 sNcand its people with a depth deeper than the sea, and more violent than that I                      42 `cfeel against the Boche.        2 (c   S2 `0cHowever, it should be pointed out that Macready              2 cheld    2  c  2 csomewhat    2 _c  2 dcequal   2 c-  %2 `copportunity anti      2 c- 2 cIrish   2  cpre  2 &cjudice   2 Scs  2 [c  /2 ^cand did not confine his        2  cdislike of th     2 t ce Irish to     2 ` cIrish nation    2 calists R2 /c. Shortly after he took up his appointment, he             2 5c  %2 8cwrote to Frances       d2 `;cStevenson saying that ever since my days in Ulster in 1913                2 9c- 2 ? c1914, I have   ------ .2 `calways looked upon the       X2 3cleaders of that [Ulster Unionist] movement as rebel           2 cs  2 c  2 c.---  2 c  @"Calibri---  2 4`c  --- c 2 T`cB  c2 Tmcack    2 Tc @Times New Roman---c- @ !*V`-  "Arial--ccbbaa