Northern Nationalism: nationalist politics, partition and the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland 1890-1940 Eamon Phoenix (Ulster Historical Foundation, £14.95) (3:1)

Reviewed by Michael Farrell 'You had opponents willing to co-operate... We were willing to help...[but] you went on the old political lines, fostering hatreds, keeping one third of the population as if they were pariahs...and relying on those religious differences and difficulties so that you could remain in office for ever'. Joe Devlin, the northern ... Read more

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