Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume I: Colonialism

A Treatise on Northern Ireland,Volume I provides a comparative audit of the scale of recent conflict in Northern Ireland and its historical origins, showing how British colonialism shaped the formation and political cultures of what became Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 560 pages
\n Publication date: 17 April 2019
\n Publisher: Oxford University Press
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This groundbreaking fusion of narrative and analysis sheds light on how British colonialism shaped the formation and political cultures of what became Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State. A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume I offers a sobering and compelling comparative audit of the scale of recent conflict in Northern Ireland and elucidates its historical roots. By contrasting colonial and sectarianized accounts of modern Irish history, Brendan O Leary demonstrates that a judicious blend of these perspectives provides a politically accurate account of direct and indirect rule, as well as administrative and settler colonialism. The British state amalgamated Ulster and Ireland into a profoundly unequal Union following four re-conquests over two centuries, which successfully defeated the Ulster Gaels, the Catholic Confederates, the Jacobites, and the United Irishmen, along with their respective European allies. Founded as a union of Protestants in Great Britain and Ireland rather than the British and Irish nations, the colonial and sectarian Union was famously punctured by the catastrophic Great Famine. The subsequent mobilization of Irish nationalists and Ulster unionists, coupled with two republican insurrections amidst the cataclysm and aftermath of World War I, brought the now partly democratized Union to an unexpected end, aside from a shrunken rump of British authority, baptized as Northern Ireland. Home rule would be granted to those who had claimed not to want it, after having been refused to those who had ardently sought it. The failure of possible federal reconstructions of the Union and the fateful partition of the island are explained and systematically compared with other British colonial partitions. Northern Ireland was invented, in accordance with British interests, to reso.

\n Weight: 948g\n
Dimension: 236 x 166 x 34 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780199243341\n \n