Modern Ireland : a very short introduction / Senia Paseta.

By:

Pašeta, Senia

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Very short introductionsPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2003.Description: xiii, 164 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cmISBN:

0192801678
9780192801678

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

941.508 PAS

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	941.508 PAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100656009

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-151) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Preface (p. xi)
List of illustrations (p. xiii)
1 The Act of Union (p. 1)
2 The Catholic question (p. 18)
3 Land questions (p. 32)
4 National questions (p. 48)
5 The end of the Union (p. 64)
6 Independent Ireland (p. 86)
7 Northern Ireland since 1922 (p. 102)
8 Modern Ireland (p. 128)
Further reading (p. 147)
Index (p. 153)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Dr Paseta is Tutorial Fellow in Modern History at St Hugh's College, Oxford. She is the recipient of numerous scholarships and prizes, including the J. G. Crawford Prize for Academic Excellence from the Australian National University.