Research Catalog

Title

Dividing Ireland : World War I and partition / Thomas Hennessey.

Author

Hennessey, Thomas.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

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Description

xxi, 280 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Nationalism > Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) > History > 20th century
• Nationalism > Ireland > History > 20th century
• World War, 1914-1918 > Influence
• World War, 1914-1918 > Ireland
• Ireland > History > Partition, 1921

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-269) and index.

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Note on terminology -- Introduction: the Crown and national identity in the United Kingdom and British Empire -- National identity, Home Rule and the Ulster question. The Government of Ireland Bill ; Irish unionism and British nationality ; Constitutional Irish nationalism and the British Empire ; Cultural nationalism and Irishness ; Conclusion -- Ireland in 1914. The eve of war ; Nationalist reactions ; Unionist reactions ; The Irish national Volunteers: southern unionist and nationalist tensions ; The passing of the Home Rule Bill ; Conclusion -- The Great War and national identity, 1914-1916. Unionism, Britishness and the war ; The Irish Volunteer split ; The Irish Party and recruiting ; Nationalists and conscription ; Unionists and conscription ; Conclusion -- The Easter Rising and aftermath. The Easter Rising and cultural nationalism ; The Rising and the European war ; The impact of the Easter Rising in nationalist Ireland ; The 1916 talks and the decline of the Irish party ; Irish Unionism and the partition proposals ; Conclusion -- Loyalty and the Crown: Nationalist divisions and Unionist-Nationalist rapprochement, 1916-18. The rise of Sinn Fein ; Nationalists and the Crown: Sinn Fein and the Irish Party ; Nationalist and southern unionist rapprochement ; Ulster Unionist perceptions of nationalists and the war ; Conclusion -- The Irish Convention and the conscription crisis, 1917-18. The Irish Convention ; Nationalist and Southern Unionist agreement at the Irish Convention ; Ulster Unionist opposition ; The conscription crisis ; The end of the war: towards armed struggle ; Conclusion -- Conclusion. Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.

ISBN

0415174201

LCCN

98007697

OCLC

ocm39060545

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries