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Fatal Influence - The Impact of Ireland on British Politics (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Fatal Influence - The Impact of Ireland on British Politics (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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"Fatal Influence" challenges and revises many widely held
assumptions about a pivotal moment in both British and Irish
history and persuasively demonstrates that Ireland's impact on
British politics lasted far longer and was far greater than has
been realised. Kevin Matthews places the settlement of the Irish
Question in the 1920s within the broader context of a revolution
then taking place in British politics and shows how each affected
the other. In a detailed investigation, he explores the Irish
partition and the often conflicting motives that led to this
momentous decision. Far from solving the Irish Question, dividing
the country into two parts merely created what one politician at
the time called its "elements of dynamite". These explosive
elements were thrown into an already unstable political situation
in Britain, with three political parties - Liberals, Conservatives,
and Labour - all vying for a place in that nation's traditional
two-party system. The book brings together some of the most
colourful characters of 20th-century British and Irish history,
from Winston Churchill and Michael Collins to David Lloyd George
and Eamon de Valera. Looming behind is Sir James Craig, the
rock-like embodiment of Ulster Unionism. But this story of "high
politics" also involves men whose careers are not normally
associated with the Irish conflict, figures such as Stanley
Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Neville Chamberlain and, even, Oswald
Mosley and Anthony Eden.
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