Ireland Since 1939 : The Persistence of Conflict

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Pub. Date: 2008-02-26
Publisher(s): Penguin Books
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Summary

Synthesizing a vast body of scholarly work, Henry Patterson offers a compelling narrative of contemporary Ireland as a place poised between the divisiveness of deep-seated conflict and the modernizing - but perhaps no less divisive - pull of ever-greater material prosperity.Although the two states of Ireland have strikingly divergent histories, Patterson shows more clearly than any previous historian how interdependent those histories - and the mirroring ideologies that have fuelled them - have been. With its fresh and unpredictable readings of key events and developments on the island since the outbreak of the second world war, Ireland Since 1939 is an authoritative and gripping account from one of the most distinguished Irish historians at work today.

Author Biography

Henry Patterson is a professor of politics at the University of Ulster, and his previous books include The Politics of Illusion.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. ix
Introductionp. xi
The Legacy of Partitionp. 1
War and the Welfare Statep. 27
'Minding Our Own Business': Eire during the Emergencyp. 50
Stagnation: Ireland 1945-1959p. 76
Modernization and Resistance: Northern Ireland 1945-1963p. 114
Expansion: Ireland 1959-1973p. 146
Terence O'Neill and the Crisis of the Unionist Statep. 180
Northern Ireland from Insurrection to the Anglo-Irish Agreementp. 211
From Crisis to Boom: The Republic 1973-2005p. 261
Between War and Peace: Northern Ireland 1985-2005p. 312
Notesp. 359
Indexp. 405
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