The Ulster Crisis: 1885-1921

ISBN-13: 9781403943705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 384 str.

D. George Boyce

Opis

Between 1885 and 1922 the question of Irish Home Rule became increasingly focused on the province of Ulster, and especially on Ulster Unionist responses to a Dublin parliament. This book explores the making of a specifically Ulster dimension to this crisis and its impact on Ulster politics.

Spis treści

The Ulster Crisis: A Conundrum; A.O'Day.- The Political Economy of the Ulster Crisis: Historiography, Social Capability and Globalisation; G.Brownlow.- The State and the Citizen: Unionists, Home Rule, Ulster and the British Constitution; D.G.Boyce.- The Irish Volunteers: A Machiavellian Moment?; M.Kelly.- The Landed Elite, Power, and Ulster Unionism; N.C.Fleming.- Irish Nationalism in Ulster, 1885-1921; A.C.Hepburn.- Actions and Views: John Brownlee Lonsdale, Unionist MP, 1900-18, and Party Leader, 1916-18; B.M.Walker.- Seeking Conciliation: William O'Brien and the Ulster Crisis, 1911-1914; S.Warwick-Haller.- 'Not a Historical but a Prospective Application?': The 1798 Rising as Recalled in the Irish Popular Press of 1898; M.Mulholland.- 'Ireland is out for blood and murder': Nationalist Opinion and the Ulster Crisis in Provincial Ireland, 1913-14; M.Wheatley.- The Irish Independent and the Ulster Crisis, 1912-21; P.Maume.- The Conserving Crowd: Mass Unionist Demonstrations in Liverpool and Tyneside, 1912-13; D.M.Jackson & D.M.MacRaild.- The Ulster Volunteer Force, 1910-1920: New Perspectives; T.Bowman.- The Royal Visit to Belfast, June 1921; G.McIntosh.- Chronology of Key Events.- Contributors.- Index.

O autorze

D. GEORGE BOYCE is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Wales, Swansea, UK.

ALAN O'DAY is Fellow in Modern History at Greyfriars College, Oxford, UK.