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Governing Hibernia - British Politicians and Ireland 1800-1921 (Hardcover)
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Governing Hibernia - British Politicians and Ireland 1800-1921 (Hardcover)
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The Anglo-Irish Union of 1800 which established the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland made British ministers in London more
directly responsible for Irish affairs than had previously been the
case. The Act did not, however, provide for full integration, and
left in existence a separate administration in Dublin under a
Viceroy and a Chief Secretary. This created tensions that were
never resolved. The relationship that ensued has generally been
interpreted in terms of 'colonialism' or 'post-colonialism',
concepts not without their problems in relation to a country so
geographically close to Britain and, indeed, so closely connected
constitutionally. Governing Hibernia seeks to examine the Union
relationship from a new and different perspective. In particular it
argues that London's policies towards Ireland in the period between
the Union and the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 oscillated sharply. At
times, the policies were based on a view of an Ireland so distant,
different, and violent that (regardless of promises made in 1800)
its government demanded peculiarly Hibernian policies of a coercive
kind (c. 1800-1830); at others, they were based on the premise that
stability was best achieved by a broadly assimilationist approach -
in effect attempting to make Ireland more like Britain (c.
1830-1868); and finally they made a return to policies of
differentiation though in less coercive ways than had been the case
in the decades immediately after the Union (c. 1868-1921). The
outcome of this last policy of differentiation was a disposition,
ultimately common to both of the main British political parties, to
grant greater measures of devolution and ultimately independence, a
development finally rendered viable by the implementation of Irish
partition in 1921/2.
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