Author: Ronan Fanning
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571297412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It was also the decade of the cataclysmic Great War, of an officers' mutiny in an elite cavalry regiment of the British Army and of Irish armed rebellion. It was a time, argues Ronan Fanning, when violence and the threat of violence trumped democratic politics. This is a contentious view. Historians have wished to see the events of that decade as an aberration, as an eruption of irrational bloodletting. And they have have been reluctant to write about the triumph of physical force. Fanning argues that in fact violence worked, however much this offends our contemporary moral instincts. Without resistance from the Ulster Unionists and its very real threat of violence the state of Northern Ireland would never have come into being. The Home Rule party of constitutionalist nationalists failed, and were pushed aside by the revolutionary nationalists Sinn Fein. Bleakly realistic, ruthlessly analytical of the vacillation and indecision displayed by democratic politicians at Westminster faced with such revolutionary intransigence, Fatal Path is history as it was, not as we would wish it to be.
Fatal Path
Author: Ronan Fanning
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571297412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It was also the decade of the cataclysmic Great War, of an officers' mutiny in an elite cavalry regiment of the British Army and of Irish armed rebellion. It was a time, argues Ronan Fanning, when violence and the threat of violence trumped democratic politics. This is a contentious view. Historians have wished to see the events of that decade as an aberration, as an eruption of irrational bloodletting. And they have have been reluctant to write about the triumph of physical force. Fanning argues that in fact violence worked, however much this offends our contemporary moral instincts. Without resistance from the Ulster Unionists and its very real threat of violence the state of Northern Ireland would never have come into being. The Home Rule party of constitutionalist nationalists failed, and were pushed aside by the revolutionary nationalists Sinn Fein. Bleakly realistic, ruthlessly analytical of the vacillation and indecision displayed by democratic politicians at Westminster faced with such revolutionary intransigence, Fatal Path is history as it was, not as we would wish it to be.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571297412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It was also the decade of the cataclysmic Great War, of an officers' mutiny in an elite cavalry regiment of the British Army and of Irish armed rebellion. It was a time, argues Ronan Fanning, when violence and the threat of violence trumped democratic politics. This is a contentious view. Historians have wished to see the events of that decade as an aberration, as an eruption of irrational bloodletting. And they have have been reluctant to write about the triumph of physical force. Fanning argues that in fact violence worked, however much this offends our contemporary moral instincts. Without resistance from the Ulster Unionists and its very real threat of violence the state of Northern Ireland would never have come into being. The Home Rule party of constitutionalist nationalists failed, and were pushed aside by the revolutionary nationalists Sinn Fein. Bleakly realistic, ruthlessly analytical of the vacillation and indecision displayed by democratic politicians at Westminster faced with such revolutionary intransigence, Fatal Path is history as it was, not as we would wish it to be.
War-path and Bivouac
Author: John Frederick Finerty
Publisher: Chicago : [J.F. Finerty
ISBN:
Category : Black Hills War, 1876-1877
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher: Chicago : [J.F. Finerty
ISBN:
Category : Black Hills War, 1876-1877
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
War-Path and Bivouac, Or the Conquest of the Sioux
Author: John F. Finerty
Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1647981204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
War-Path and Bivouac Or the Conquest of the Sioux is a fascinating account of the Indian Wars in the West. John Finnerty describes his experiences in the Big Horn and Yellowstone expedition of 1876.
Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1647981204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
War-Path and Bivouac Or the Conquest of the Sioux is a fascinating account of the Indian Wars in the West. John Finnerty describes his experiences in the Big Horn and Yellowstone expedition of 1876.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
Author: Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Comprises the proceedings of the various sections of the society, each with separate t.-p. and pagination.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Comprises the proceedings of the various sections of the society, each with separate t.-p. and pagination.
The Nineteenth Century and After
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nineteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nineteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
Book Description
Parasites
Author: Thomas Spencer Cobbold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Helminths
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Helminths
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Pice Papers on Indian Reform
Practical Sermons for All the Sundays and Holidays of the Year
Author: John Perry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Home and School Visitor
The Story of the Life of Pius the Ninth
Author: Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Publisher: Belford Bros.
ISBN:
Category : Popes
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher: Belford Bros.
ISBN:
Category : Popes
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description