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172 pages, Hardcover
Published September 2, 2022
The Government of Ireland Act [1920] did not coincide with any Irish political aspiration; it was a British coalition Cabinet compromise aimed at delivering the maximum measure of devolution compatible with its own survival and with public, especially Conservative Party, opinion in Britain.And so I suspect it is with most border drawing exercises, if they’re even given this much focus. Proponents of the new Irish state, on the other hand, were driven by nationalist beliefs, propelled with an anti-British sentiment that, at its core, was “exclusivist, Catholic, Gaelic, and rural – rather than the democratic, inclusive, secular Enlightenment principles of the United States and France.” The resulting border was something no one even contemplated a decade prior to its establishment.