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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume I - Colonialism (Hardcover)
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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume I - Colonialism (Hardcover)
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This brilliantly innovative synthesis of narrative and analysis
illuminates how British colonialism shaped the formation and
political cultures of what became Northern Ireland and the Irish
Free State. A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume I provides a
somber and compelling comparative audit of the scale of recent
conflict in Northern Ireland and explains its historical origins.
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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