Chief Secretary for Ireland in the last months of the Balfour government in 1905, a Unionist leader with many friends and supporters in southern Ireland, and a politician who held ministerial office in the wartime coalition governments, Long had great influence in establishing a…
Revolutionary Ireland, 1912-25 analyses the main events in Ireland from the initial crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill in 1912 to the consolidation of partition Ulster with the settling of the boundary issue in 1925.Written with particular reference to the needs of students in…
Background to the revolution -- The Ulster crisis, 1910-1914 -- The Easter Rising, 1916 -- The rise of Sinn Fein, 1916-1918 -- The War of Independence, 1919-1921 -- Truce and treaty -- The establishment of Northern Ireland, 1920-1925 -- The Irish Civil War, 1922-1923
"Revolutionary Ireland, 1912-25 analyses the main events in Ireland from the initial crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill in 1912 to the consolidation of partition Ulster with the settling of the boundary issue in 1925. Written with particular reference to the needs of students …