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Crisis & Decline: The Fate of the Southern Unionists
R,b, Mc Dowell
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Description for Crisis & Decline: The Fate of the Southern Unionists
paperback. This lively, meticulously researched account details the fate of Irish unionists outside Ulster from the era of Parnell through the early years of the Irish Free State. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJD1; JPF; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 216 x 30. Weight in Grams: 332.
‘Receding imperialism usually leaves behind those who have for generations staunchly upheld its authority and flourished under its aegis – Germans in Bohemia, Swedes in Finland, loyalists or tories in the American colonies, Greeks in Asia Minor, Muslims in the Balkans. Among those abandoned adherents of a lost cause were the unionists in the south and the west of Ireland.’ So begins R.B. McDowell’s preface to this lively, meticulously researched account of the fate of Irish unionists outside Ulster from the era of Parnell through the early years of the Irish Free State. McDowell details the efforts of a ruling ... Read more
‘Receding imperialism usually leaves behind those who have for generations staunchly upheld its authority and flourished under its aegis – Germans in Bohemia, Swedes in Finland, loyalists or tories in the American colonies, Greeks in Asia Minor, Muslims in the Balkans. Among those abandoned adherents of a lost cause were the unionists in the south and the west of Ireland.’ So begins R.B. McDowell’s preface to this lively, meticulously researched account of the fate of Irish unionists outside Ulster from the era of Parnell through the early years of the Irish Free State. McDowell details the efforts of a ruling ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843516545
SKU
9781843516545
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About R,b, Mc Dowell
R.B. McDowell (1913-2011) was one of Ireland’s most celebrated historians. He was a Professor of History and Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. His more recent works included Ireland in the Age of Imperialism and Revolution 1760-1801 (1979), Land and Learning: Two Irish Clubs (1993), and biographies of Alice Stopford Green, J.P. Mahaffy and Henry Grattan. His Historical Essays 19382001 ... Read more
Reviews for Crisis & Decline: The Fate of the Southern Unionists
“No one alive has waded through more collections of correspondence, legislation, administrative records, ecclesiastical and collegiate fasti, than Professor McDowell. His knowledge of the fine print of the 18th and 19th centuries is truly awesome.” A.T.Q. Stewart