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Using extensive and fresh archival material, this book places the relationship between the United Kingdom and Ireland after 1921 in a new light, encouraging us to rethink the dominant narrative of conflict and strife. Whilst the work does not shy away from the clear points of dispute, it contends that these were far from the full story.
List of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. 'It all happened so long ago' - contested histories
2. A 'weariness' among 'everybody' - conflict and the road to 1921
3. The 'practical experience of administration' - Cosgrave's conservatism
4. The logical enigma - de Valera's divergence
5. Dissent, descent, and difference in interwar discourse
6. 'English cold' or a 'want of immunity - tackling tuberculosis
7. Commonwealth and Monarchy
8. 'Hot Air Harps - the American dimension
9. 'Friendly' neutrality? - the Second World War
10. To conserve or change the 'rigid society' - the postwar status quo
11. Travel, trade and the Troubles
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the author
Richard Carr is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Strategy at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), Cambridge, England. He has authored the books
Charlie Chaplin: A Political Biography from Victorian Britain to Modern America, (2017, longlisted for a Kraszna-Krausz book award) and
March of the Moderates: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and the Rebirth of Progressive Politics (2019). He co-authored
Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon (2016, a
Guardian newspaper politics book of the year) with Rachel Reeves (MP). He has worked in the think tank and public policy sphere and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Summary
Using extensive and fresh archival material, this book places the relationship between the United Kingdom and Ireland after 1921 in a new light, encouraging us to rethink the dominant narrative of conflict and strife. Whilst the work does not shy away from the clear points of dispute, it contends that these were far from the full story.
