Title Modern Ireland : a very short introduction / Senia Paseta

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (164 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Very short introductions Very short introductions. Contents The Act of Union -- The Catholic question -- Land questions -- National questions -- The end of the Union -- Independent Ireland -- Northern Ireland since 1922 -- Modern Ireland Summary This is a book about the Irish Question, or more specifically about Irish Questions. The term has become something of a catch-all, a convenient way to encompass numerous issues and developments which pertain to the political, social, and economic history of modern Ireland. The Irish Question has of course changed: one of the main aims of this book is to explore the complicated and shifting nature of the Irish Question and to assess what it has meant to various political minds and agendas. No other issue brought down as many nineteenth-century governments and no comparable twentieth-century dilemma has matched its ability to frustrate the attempts of British cabinets to find a solution; this inability to find a lasting answer to the Irish Question is especially striking when seen in the context of the massive shifts in British foreign policy brought about by two world wars, decolonization, and the cold war. Senia Paseta charts the changing nature of the Irish Question over the last 200 years, within an international political and social historical context Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-151) and index Notes UofL: Unlimited users Print version record Subject Civilization. SUBJECT Ireland -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068017 Ireland -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068021 Ireland -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067971 Subject Ireland. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781280444463 1280444460 9786610444465 6610444463 0191538914 9780191538919 9780191577574 019157757X

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