Defenders of the Union: A Survey of British and Irish Unionism Since 1801

by O'Day; Alan

• ISBN13: 9780415174220
• ISBN10: 0415174228
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-03-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Boyce looks at key aspects of Irish and British unionism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland in 1800 was of profound importance in shaping the destiny of the British Isles. The book looks at the way the Union affected Anglo-Irish relations, Protestant/Catholic relations in Ireland, and the social, cultural and economic development of Britain and Ireland.

Author Biography

Arthur Aughey is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown. Paul Bew is Professor of Politics at the Queen's University of Belfast. D. George Boyce is Professor of Politics at the University of Wales, Swansea. Patrick Buckland is Trustee and Education Adviser to the Warrington Project and is now retired from the Directorship, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. Andrew Gailey is a house master at Eton College. Gordon Gillespie is Research Officer on an Economic and Social Research Council project sponsored jointly by the University of Ulster and the Queen's University of Belfast. Alvin Jackson is Professor of Modern Irish History at the Queen's University of Belfast. Brian Jenkins is Professor of History at Bishops University, Canada. Greta Jones is Professor of History at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown. Carla King is Lecturer in History at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra in Dublin. Alan Megahey is Chaplain of Uppingham School. Alan O'Day is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of North London. Alan Parkinson is Senior Lecturer in History and Education at South Bank University, London. Joseph Spence is Master in College at Eton College. Norman Vance is Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Research Centre in the Humanities at the University of Sussex.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
The Union: introduction	1	(12)
D. George Boyce
Alan O'day
PART I Purposes, establishment and definition of the Union	13	(100)
Weary patriots: Ireland and the making of unionism	15	(24)
D. George Boyce
The Chief Secretary	39	(26)
Brain Jenkins
Isaac Butt, Irish nationality and the conditional defence of the Union, 1833--70	65	(25)
Joseph Spence
Defending the Union: Parliamentary opinions, 1869 and 1886	90	(23)
Alan O'day
PART II Modification of the Union	113	(96)
Irish unionism, 1870--1922	115	(22)
Alvin Jackson
Defenders of the Union: Sir Horace Plunkett	137	(22)
Carla King
`God will defend the right': the Protestant Churches and opposition to home rule	159	(17)
Alan Megahey
The problems of unionist literature: Macaulay, Froude and Lawless	176	(12)
Norman Vance
Scientists against home rule	188	(21)
Greta Jones
PART III After-effects and entrenchment of the Union	209	(116)
A Protestant state: unionists in government, 1921--39	211	(16)
Patrick Buckland
The destructiveness of constructive unionism: theories and practice, 1890s--1960s	227	(24)
Andrew Gailey
Loyalists since 1972	251	(20)
Gordon Gillespie
Bigots in bowler hats? The presentation and reception of the loyalist case in Great Britain	271	(23)
Alan Parkinson
Unionism, Conservatism and the Anglo-Irish Agreement	294	(22)
Arthur Aughey
The Union: a concept in terminal decay?	316	(9)
Paul Bew
Appendix: the Act of Union	325	(3)
Index	328