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This book examines the birth of the Irish state and sets in its European historical context. The process of democratic nation-making reached full fruition while a vicious civil war was raging, ostensibly fought over points of political principle but actually deciding whether Ire…
Tom Garvin examines the birth of the Irish state, paying particular attention to the ideological differences between the two parties who fought a civil war for control of the fledgling state. He traces the stability of the Irish republic to the victory of moderate realists over …