Defenders of the Union
Subtitle: British and Irish Unionism, 1800-1999
Publisher: Routledge
Published: March 15, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780415174220
First sentence: Historians of Irish unionism usually begin their investigations relatively late in time; the period since the first Home Rule Bill (1886) is the focus of attention, with perhaps a backward glance at the Protestant opposition to Daniel O'Connell's agitation for the repeal of the Union in the 1830s and 1840s.