Author: K. Theodore Hoppen

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0198207433

The first book to examine in detail how British ministers and politicians sought to govern Ireland throughout the period of Anglo-Irish Union (1800-1921), this trenchant and original account argues that British politicians had little understanding or time for Irish matters, and oscillated between policies of coercion and assimilation.