The Ulster Question Since 1945

ISBN-13: 9780333998694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 267 str.

J Loughlin

Opis

Since the outbreak of the present troubles in August 1969, a thriving academic literature on the Ulster problem and its history has developed. Based on the most authoritative texts and informed journal and newspaper commentaries, this revised and updated edition includes new materials on the period as a whole, and an assessment of the developments since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.

Spis treści

Series Editors' Preface.- Preface to the Second Edition.- Acknowledgements.- List of Abbreviations.- Map of Northern Ireland.- Introduction.- Ulster: A Reconstituted Question.- British Intervention.- New Initiatives and Old Problems.- Agreement and Process.- Agreement and Resolution?.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

JAMES LOUGHLIN is Reader in History at the Magee campus of the University of Ulster.

Blurb

This major work of synthesis presents an up-to-date assessment of the issues at the very root of the troubles in Northern Ireland. Framed against the background of Ulster history since the early seventeenth century, the major factors in the development of the Ulster question since 1945 are examined. These include:

- the evolution of Ulster Unionism and the Nationalist and Republican traditions
- the role of Britain
- the increasingly important part played by external actors, especially the USA

Since the outbreak of the present troubles in August 1969, a thriving academic literature on Ulster and its history has emerged. Based on the most authoritative texts, this thoroughly revised and updated edition includes new materials on the period as a whole, and an assessment of the developments since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.