Home Rule Crisis

British High Politics and Nationalist Ireland, Margaret O’Callaghan and Ideology and the Irish Question, Paul Bew (3:1)

British High Politics and Nationalist Ireland: criminality, land and the law under Foster and Balfour Margaret O’Callaghan (Cork University Press, £30hb, £15.95pb) Ideology and the Irish Question: Ulster Unionism and Irish Nationalism 1912-1916 Paul Bew (Clarendon Press, £20) (3:1) Reviewed by Martin Mansergh In Ireland, history is ideology. Over the last few decades, historians of … Read more

Irish Suffragettes at the time of the Home Rule Crisis

Irishmen do not need to have indicated to them the hardship of being governed by those alien to them in temperament, ideals and traditions. An Englishmen they say can never understand the needs of a country like Ireland. How strange then that all men should be considered gifted with the wonderful power of sympathetic interest … Read more

A History of Ulster. Jonathan Bardon and Nine Ulster Lives, G. O’Brien & P. Roebuck (eds.) (1:1)

A History of Ulster . Jonathan Bardon (Blackstaff Press, 1992, £14.95) and Nine Ulster Lives,  G. O’Brien & P. Roebuck (eds.) (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1992, £7.95) (1:1) Tony Canavan On being presented with Jonathan Bardon’s A History of Ulster one recalls the Duke of Gloucester’s comment on being presented with Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, … Read more