Defenders of the Union
Subtitle: British and Irish Unionism, 1800-1999
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 22, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780415174213
First sentence: Thomas Hobbes reminds us that mankind's basic desire is to find security against each other; Irish history and Anglo-Irish relations bear out the truth of his proposition.