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| The Integrity of Ireland: Home Rule, Nationalism, and Partition, 1912-1922 |
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Author - Stephen M. Duffy
Publication Date - May 2009
Number of Pages - 234
ISBN #9780838641873
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Price $52.50 - Price subject to change
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| Description |
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| Circumstances placed John Redmond and the Irish Parliamentary Party atthe center of British politics in 1912. After more than a century ofstruggle, Irish nationalists looked likely to return a parliament toDublin that would allow the Irish people, as one nation, to determinetheir own domestic affairs. Staunch Ulster Unionists stood inopposition, determined to reject Home Rule for their region. Alongsidethem were Unionist Party members who declared that such an action woulddestroy the British Empire, wreck the constitution, and possibly fomenta civil war. Over the next decade, the Home Rulers saw their causebetrayed and their party destroyed. Asquith, Lloyd George, and WinstonChurchill all served to undercut Redmond and his supporters in theinterests of political expediency. Four years of war in Europe,followed by four years of conflict in Ireland, led to a more radicalapproach to the Irish question that allowed Sinn Fein and the IrishRepublican Army to make the nationalist cause their own. By 1922, Eamonde Valera, Michael Collins, James Craig and their followers tookpossession of a divided Ireland embittered by the enmity of two Irishidentities and the strains of factional strife.
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| Author/Editor Biographies |
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| Stephen Duffy was born in London and moved to the United States at age seventeen. He studied history at Angelo State University and Texas A&M where he earned his PhD in 1993. He is currently an Associate Professor of European History at Texas A&M International University and lives in Laredo, TX. |
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