Britain and Irish separatism
Subtitle: from the Fenians to the Free State, 1867-1922
By: Thomas E. Hachey ; with revised epilogue.
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Irish question.; Home rule -- Ireland.; Nationalism -- Ireland.; Ireland -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
Description: "Even more so than the Young Ireland rising of 1848, the Fenian rebellion was an unqualified fiasco." So states Professor Hachey in the introduction to Britain and Irish Separatism. He goes from there to analyze the almost forty years of unsuccessful efforts by Irish and British leaders to reach a constitutional solution to "the Irish question," a failure that culminated in the resurgence of revolutionary separatism, the Easter Rising of 1916, and the growth of Sinn Fein. The Irish War for Independence and the Partition Compromise of 1921 are explored in detail, as is the relationship between Irish separatism and American politics, and the international impact of a free Ireland. - Back cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 329-338.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: British liberalism and the Irish Home Rule Movement (1867-1900); title: We are not British: the varieties of separatist sentiment in Ireland (1890-1911); title: Union forever: Britain's most dangerous hour (1911-1914); title: Other portraits of protest: nationalist and labourite dissent in Ireland (1914); title: The ascendancy of revolutionary separatism in Ireland (1914-1916); title: The Easter rising: rebellion and reprisal (1916); title: Reaction to the rising: the growth of Sinn Fein (1916-1918); title: Dail Eireann and the Irish separatist appeal to the Peace Conference (1919); title: Irish separatism and American politics: the British response (1919-1921); title: War for Independence and the Partition Compromise (1919-1922)