Synopses & Reviews
Between 1885 and 1922 the question of Irish Home Rule became increasingly focused on the province of Ulster, and especially on Ulster Unionist responses to a Dublin parliament. This book explores the making of a specifically Ulster dimension to this crisis and its impact on Ulster politics.
About the Author
Alan O'Day is with Greyfriars College, Oxford and D. George Boyce is with University of Wales Swansea.
Table of Contents
The Ulster Volunteer Force, 1910-1920: New Perspectives; T.Bowman * 'Ulster, Like Czechoslovakia, Is Born to Trouble': Sir James Craig and the Anglo-Irish Treaty Negotiations, 1921; D.G.Boyce * Globalisation, Social Capability and Economic Performance, 1886-1920: Towards a Political Economy of the Ulster Crisis; G.Brownlow * The Landed Elite, Power, and Northern Unionism; N.C.Fleming * Irish Nationalism in Ulster, 1885-1921; A.C.Hepburn * The Irish Volunteers: A Machiavellian Moment?; M.Kelly * The Irish Independent and the Ulster Crisis, 1912-21; P.Maume * The Royal Visit to Belfast, June 1921; G.McIntosh * The Conserving Crowd: Mass Unionist Demonstrations in Liverpool and Tyneside, 1912-13; D.M.Jackson & D.M.MacRaild * 'Not a historical but a prospective application?': The 1798 Rising as recalled in the Irish Popular Press of 1898; M.Mulholland * The Ulster Crisis: Theoretical perspectives; A.O'Day * Actions and Views: John Brownlee Lonsdale, Unionist MP, 1900-18, and Party Leader, 1916-18; B.M.Walker * Seeking Conciliation: William O'Brien and the Ulster Crisis, 1911-1914; S.Warwick-Haller * 'Ireland is out for blood and murder': Nationalist Opinion and the Ulster Crisis in Provincial Ireland, 1913-14; M.Wheatley * Bibliography * Index