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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II

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Brendan O'Leary

This political science and historical institutionalism work delves deep into the complex issues surrounding Northern Ireland's creation through contested partition, and subsequent struggles with antagonistic ethnic majoritarianism. The Ulster Unionist Party successfully disorganized Northern nationalists and Catholics, enforcing a one-party dominance system that displayed pathological discrimination. The book compares Northern Ireland's trajectory with that of Irish Free State’s incremental decolonization, exploring the limited prospects for reunification with Ireland. With its powerful historical insight, this read offers a detailed analysis of the conflict and its consequences.
Publish Date
2019-06-11T00:00:00.000Z
2019-06-11T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
4.5
ISBN
9780198830573
Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2020-02-02T00:00:00.000Z
This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement, and it would have made my best books of 2019 list (add-ons here) had I known about it earlier. It starts with “An audit of violence after 1966,” and then goes back to the seventeenth century to begin to dig out what happened. It has more detail than almost anyone needs to know, yet at the same time it remains unfailingly conceptual and relies on theoretical social science as well, rather than merely reciting names and dates. Unlike in so many history books, O’Leary is always trying to explain what happened, or what did not.      source