Defenders of the Union (eBook, ePUB)

A Survey of British and Irish Unionism Since 1801
Redaktion: Boyce, D. George; O'Day, Alan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Defenders of the Union is a concise and readable overview of the history and contentious politics of Unionism and the affect it has had on Anglo-Irish relations over the last two hundred years. It is an essential guide to this confusing topic and covers key areas such as: * definition of unionism * establishment of the union * Unionist literature * loyalists since 1972.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134687435
• Artikelnr.: 42676516

Autorenporträt

D. George Boyce is Professor of Politics at the University of Wales, Swansea. His previous publications include Nationalism in Ireland (Routledge, 1995) and The Irish Question and British Politics 1868-1996 (Macmillan, 1996). Alan O'Day is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of North London. His previous publications include Irish Home Rule 1867-1921 (Manchester University Press, 1998) and Charles Stewart Parnell (Dundalgan Press, 1998). D. George Boyce and Alan O'Day have also co-edited two books for Routledge, Parnell in Perspective (1991) and The Making of Modern Irish History (1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The Union
D. George Boyce
Alan O'Day; Part 1 Purposes
establishment and definition of the Union; Chapter 2 Weary patriots
D. George Boyce; Chapter 3 The Chief Secretary
Brian Jenkins; Chapter 4 Isaac Butt
Irish nationality and the conditional defence of the Union
1833-70
Joseph Spence; Chapter 5 Defending the Union
Alan O'Day; Part 2 Modification of the Union; Chapter 6 Irish unionism
1870-1922
Alvin Jackson; Chapter 7 Defenders of the Union
Carla King; Chapter 8 'God will defend the right'
Alan Megahey; Chapter 9 The problems of unionist literature
Norman Vance; Chapter 10 Scientists against home rule
Greta Jones; Part 3 After-effects and entrenchment of the Union; Chapter 11 A Protestant state
Patrick Buckland; Chapter 12 The destructiveness of constructive unionism
Andrew Gailey; Chapter 13 Loyalists since 1972
Gordon Gillespie; Chapter 14 Bigots in bowler hats?
Alan Parkinson; Chapter 15 Unionism
Conservatism and the Anglo-Irish Agreement
Arthur Aughey; Chapter 16 The Union
Paul Bewbio1a Appendix
D. George Boyce
Alan O'Day;