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What a bloody awful country : Northern Ireland's century of division / Kevin Meagher. - London : Biteback Publishing, 2022. - IX, [1], 324 strony ; 20 cm.

Author

Meagher Kevin. Autor

Form of Work

Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

Demographic Group

Literatura angielska

Subject

Kwestia irlandzka Podział Irlandii (1921) Konflikt w Irlandii Północnej Władza Polityka wewnętrzna Irlandia Północna (Wielka Brytania) Wielka Brytania

Genre/Form

Reportaż

Domain

Historia Polityka, politologia, administracja publiczna

Książka w języku angielskim. In the early years of the twentieth century, simmering discontent began to boil over on the island of Ireland as the nascent IRA took its guerrilla campaign against British rule to the streets. By 1921, Britain had beaten a retreat from all but a small portion of the country – and thus Northern Ireland was born. Kevin Meagher argues that partition has been an unmitigated disaster for Nationalists and Unionists alike. As the long and fraught history of British rule in Ireland staggered to a close, a better future was there for the taking but was lost amid political paralysis, while the resulting fifty years of devolution succeeded only in creating a brooding sectarian stalemate that exploded into the Troubles. In a stark but reasoned critique, Meagher traces the landmark events in Northern Ireland's century of existence, exploring the missed signals, the turning points, the principled decisions that at various stages should have been taken, as well as the raw realpolitik of how Northern Ireland has been governed over the past 100 years.

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