Home rule

"Alvin Jackson's Home Rule : An Irish History examines the development of Home Rule and devolution in Ireland from the nineteenth century to the present. It traces some of the main themes in Irish peacemaking from their late Victorian roots to the beginning of the millennium: it explores the origins of the Good Friday Agreement, and many of the interconnections between Irish political history and contemporary affairs. The work offers an incisive reappraisal of different political leaders through the period. Drawing on new archival evidence, Home Rule illuminates a crucial aspect of British and Irish history over a two-hundred-year span."--Jacket.

First sentence: "Barricaded in his Georgian town house, a 65-year-old depressive watched anxiously from his windows as the ripples from nearby street-fighting lapped up against his doorstep."

Year

2003

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Editions

2

Pages

416

ISBN

9780195220483

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