The British State and the Ulster Crisis
Author: Paul Bew
Publisher: London : Verso
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
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The Ulster Crisis
Author: Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the years preceding the First World War, Britain faced its gravest political crisis since the days of Cromwell and Charles I. The Liberal government was determined to grant home rule to Ireland against the wishes of 100,000 armed Ulster Protestants.
The Home Rule Crisis 1912-14
Author: Gabriel Doherty
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781781172452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Home Rule Bill, passed by the British parliament in 1912, aimed at giving Ireland some control over her own affairs. However, this was postponed when the First World War broke out, and by the time the war had ended the political landscape in Ireland had changed irrevocably. The respected historians who have contributed to this book examine the reaction to the Home Rule Bill across many shades of political opinion, and give a fascinating analysis of what might have been if external events had not overtaken local ones.
Two Irelands Beyond the Sea
Author: Lindsey Flewelling
Publisher: Reappraisals in Irish History
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1786940450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUncovers the transnational movement by Ireland's unionists as they worked to maintain the Union during the Home Rule era. The book explores the political, social, religious, and Scotch-Irish ethnic connections between Irish unionists and the United States as unionists appealed to Americans for support and reacted to Irish nationalism.
Irish Liberty, British Democracy
Author: James Doherty
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781782053606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIrish Liberty, British Democracy charts the years of political crisis arising from the 1912 Irish Home Rule Bill, revealing the controversy to have been not only a defining moment in Irish history, but a significant episode, too, in the consolidation of democracy in Great Britain. It reveals the power over the governing Liberal Party wielded by Irish nationalist leader, John Redmond, his decisive role in securing a historic stride for British democracy, and the forcefulness with which he stood up to ostensible friends and foes.
Northern Ireland
Author: Marc Mulholland
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 0198825005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the plantation of Ulster in the 17th century, Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict - Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Unionist. This text explores the pivotal moments in this history.
Ireland in Crisis
Author: Patrick Little
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781526126702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents new research on a crucial period in Irish history, looking at how individuals and institutions responded to an unprecedented crisis in church and state. It provides perspectives on the roles of English intervention, Confederate politics and the Catholic and Protestant churches, alongside challenging takes on Ormond and Cromwell.
The Tories and Ireland
Author: Jeremy Smith
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This was a struggle in which the Tories, rather than see Ireland achieve self-governing status similar to Canada, Australia and South Africa, eschewed constitutional precedents, de-stabilised the British state, encouraged civil disobedience and fomented Ireland's drift into civil war." "The purpose of this book is to explain how and why these extraordinary actions occurred. What were they trying to achieve and how did they justify their actions? Why were they willing to pursue such extreme methods?"--Jacket.
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History
Author: Alvin Jackson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014-03
Total Pages: 801
ISBN-13: 0199549346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDraws from a wide range of disciplines to bring together 36 leading scholars writing about 400 years of modern Irish history
Churchill and Ireland
Author: Paul Bew
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 019875521X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe full story of Winston Churchill's lifelong engagement with Ireland and the Irish. A long overdue book which at last addresses the most neglected part of Churchill's legacy, on both sides of the Irish Sea.
