A treatise on Northern Ireland. Volume 1, colonialism, the shackles of the state and hereditary animosities / Brendan O`Leary.
Edition: First editionDescription: xxxiii, 522 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780199243341; 0199243344Subject(s): 1968-1998 | International relations | Politics and government | Northern Ireland -- History -- 1968-1998 | Northern Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1968-1998 | Northern Ireland -- Relations -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- Relations -- Northern Ireland | Great Britain | Northern IrelandGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 941.6 LOC classification: DA990.U46 | O44 2019Summary: This brilliantly innovative synthesis of narrative and analysis illuminates how British colonialism shaped the formation and political cultures of what became Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State. 0'A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume I' provides a somber and compelling comparative audit of the scale of recent conflict in Northern Ireland and explains its historical origins. 0Contrasting colonial and sectarianized accounts of modern Irish history, Brendan O'Leary shows that a judicious meld of these perspectives provides a properly political account of direct and indirect rule, and of administrative and settler colonialism. The British state incorporated Ulster and Ireland into a deeply unequal Union after four re-conquests over two centuries had successively defeated the Ulster Gaels, the Catholic Confederates, the Jacobites, and the United Irishmen-and their respective European allies. Founded as a union of Protestants in Great Britain and Ireland, rather than of the British and the Irish nations, the colonial and sectarian Union was infamously punctured in the catastrophe of the Great Famine. The subsequent mobilization of Irish nationalists and Ulster unionists, and two republican insurrections amid the cataclysm and aftermath of World War I, brought the now partly democratized Union to an unexpected end, aside from a shrunken rump of British authority, baptized as Northern Ireland. Home rule would be granted to those who had claimed not to want it, after having been refused to those who had ardently sought it. 0.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This brilliantly innovative synthesis of narrative and analysis illuminates how British colonialism shaped the formation and political cultures of what became Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State. 0'A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume I' provides a somber and compelling comparative audit of the scale of recent conflict in Northern Ireland and explains its historical origins. 0Contrasting colonial and sectarianized accounts of modern Irish history, Brendan O'Leary shows that a judicious meld of these perspectives provides a properly political account of direct and indirect rule, and of administrative and settler colonialism. The British state incorporated Ulster and Ireland into a deeply unequal Union after four re-conquests over two centuries had successively defeated the Ulster Gaels, the Catholic Confederates, the Jacobites, and the United Irishmen-and their respective European allies. Founded as a union of Protestants in Great Britain and Ireland, rather than of the British and the Irish nations, the colonial and sectarian Union was infamously punctured in the catastrophe of the Great Famine. The subsequent mobilization of Irish nationalists and Ulster unionists, and two republican insurrections amid the cataclysm and aftermath of World War I, brought the now partly democratized Union to an unexpected end, aside from a shrunken rump of British authority, baptized as Northern Ireland. Home rule would be granted to those who had claimed not to want it, after having been refused to those who had ardently sought it. 0.