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The Last Irish Question - Will Six into Twenty-Six Ever Go? (Paperback)
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The Last Irish Question - Will Six into Twenty-Six Ever Go? (Paperback)
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A view of the south of Ireland – political, social, geographical
– through the eyes of a liberal northern protestant being asked
to rejoin it. 'A pleasure to read... Incisively mixing memoir,
reportage and analysis' Daily Mail 'Discursive, humane and
meticulously attentive to verbal nuances that can spell a world of
meaning' Irish Examiner 'Patterson's travels provide humorous
asides, telling insights and sobering pessimism' Irish Independent
The reunification of Ireland, which in 1998 seemed to have been
pushed over the far horizon as an aspiration, has returned with a
vengeance. Brexit calls into question the British commitment to
Northern Ireland and threatens its economy. There has been a surge
in support for Sinn Féin in the South, a party pushing
relentlessly for a poll on the future of the border. If Sinn Féin
enters the government of the Republic, as seems inevitable in the
coming years, this issue will move even higher up the agenda, with
who knows what consequences north of the border. In The Last Irish
Question, Glenn Patterson travels the country, looking at this
place he is being asked to join and which a significant number of
people in the North have spent a very long time shunning. Most of
the South is terra incognita to them (as it is to many people who
live in Dublin). There have been countless books describing and
travelling through Ulster, but never one that turns its gaze the
other way. Brilliantly witty and alarmingly topical, this is a
social, political and geographical view of the South of Ireland, as
well as a journey of discovery for a quizzical Northerner being
asked to rejoin it.
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