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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume I - Colonialism (Paperback)
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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume I - Colonialism (Paperback)
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This first volume in A Treatise on Northern Ireland illuminates how
British colonialism shaped the formation and political cultures of
what became Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State. Contrasting
colonial and sectarianized accounts of modern Irish history,
Brendan O'Leary shows that a judicious meld of these perspectives
provides a properly political account of direct and indirect rule,
and of administrative and settler colonialism. The British state
incorporated Ulster and Ireland into a deeply unequal Union after
four re-conquests over two centuries had successively defeated the
Ulster Gaels, the Catholic Confederates, the Jacobites, and the
United Irishmen-and their respective European allies. Founded as a
union of Protestants in Great Britain and Ireland, rather than of
the British and the Irish nations, the colonial and sectarian Union
was infamously punctured in the catastrophe of the Great Famine.
The subsequent mobilization of Irish nationalists and Ulster
unionists, and two republican insurrections amid 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 resolve the 'hereditary
animosities' between the descendants of Irish natives and British
settlers in Ireland. In the long run, the invention proved unfit
for purpose. Indispensable for explaining contemporary institutions
and mentalities, this volume clears the path for the intelligent
reader determined to understand contemporary Northern Ireland.
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