The Tories and Ireland: 1910 - 1914 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780716526964)

This book marks the first comprehensive study of the British Conservative party during the struggle over Home Rule between 1912 and 1914. A struggle in which the Tories, rather than see Ireland achieve self-governing status along similar lines to Canada, Australia and South Africa, eschewed constitutional precedents, destabilised the British state, encouraged civil disobedience and fomented IrelandÃ?Â?Ã?Â-s drift into civil war. The purpose of this work is to explain how and why these extraordinary actions occurred.

Author: Jeremy Smith
ISBN-10: 0716526964
ISBN-13: 9780716526964
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2001
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 30