English Literature and Irish Politics

This is an introduction to the best available scholarship within Irish politics, featuring the most influential and significant articles which have been publish

Contains essays on poetry and English rule of Ireland

Ireland has enjoyed continuous democratic government for almost a century, an unusual experience among countries that gained their independence in the 20th cent

This book examines the interrelated dynamics of political action, ideology and state structures in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, emphasising the

One of the greatest ironies of Irish history is that republicanism began not with the Catholics but with the Presbyterians of Ulster. This book explores the rol

Aristocrats and itinerants, unionists and nationalists, Catholics and Protestants – the Great War united thousands of Clare men and women to a cause for which

A detailed study of the political relations between church and state in modern Ireland, this work is also an analysis of domestic politics within the context of

The clash between Britain and Ireland--and between Catholics and Protestants within Ireland--is among the oldest and most enduring nationalist, ethnic, and reli

Almost nowhere are politics and history so intimately bound up as in Ireland. Over the course of several hundred years rival political and religious camps have