IRELAND: THE 20TH CENTURY :: 1998

• Paperback Book
• Written by Charles Townshend
• Over 280 pages
• Copyright © 1998 by Charles Townshend

" 'A marvel of compression and balance'
- Brian Farrell "

" IRELAND in the twentieth century has had a very different history from that of most other western European countries. The two most profound shocks of the century, the world wars, met Ireland obliquely rather than head-on. Partition and civil war, on the other hand, were embittering experiences felt at first hand, the legacies of which snake their course through its subsequent history. "

" How did the Irish 'revolution' come about and what was its nature? How did Ulster end up with the rich irony of being the only part of Ireland to embrace Home Rule? How well did the new Republic's promise of freedom assuage the painful reality, until the 1960s, of low economic growth and persistent emigration? Why was the Northern Ireland state unable or unwilling to conciliate its minority Catholic population? These are among the many issues addressed in Charles Townshend's masterful new account, one in which, to use the words of a reviewer of an earlier work of his, 'outstanding coolness, judiciousness and flair' combine to cover the whole of Ireland, north and south, from the origins of Sinn Féin at the beginning of the century to the Stormont agreement at the end. "

Contents include:

" List of maps, figures and tables
Abbreviations
Glossary
Preface

1. The state of the Union, 1900
2. The national question
3. Cultures and civilizations: the struggle for Ireland's soul
4. Home Rule and the British crisis, 1905-1914
5. World war and rebellion, 1914-1919
6. The first republic and the Anglo-Irish war, 1919-1922
7. Civil war and nation-building, 1922-1932
8. The dominion of Eamon de Valera, 1932-1948
9. The second republic and modernization, 1948-1968
10. The Stormont regime: Northern Ireland, 1920-1969
11. The thirty years' crisis, 1968-1998

Notes
Biographical Notes
Chronology
Select Bibliography
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Index "

This book is in very good condition with minor wear to the cover.
There are several pages with underlining, highlighting, and notations written in the margins.
No torn or ripped pages.

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