Volume 1: Colonialism
The Shackles of the State and Hereditary Animosities
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Abbreviations and Glossary
Terminology
1.1: An Audit of Violence after 1966
1.2: Conceptual Conspectus: Colonialism
1.3: Wild and Bitter Fruits and His Majesty's Royal Pains: Colonial
Triangles and Trilemmas, 1603-1800
1.4: Overlooked by the Tall Kingdom before Dying of Political
Economy: Ireland under the Union, 1801-1857
1.5: Crying Aloud for Vengeance and the Power of a Colonial Caste:
Toward Union's End, 1858-1914
1.6: "'Twas better to die 'neath an Irish sky than at Suvla or
Sud-El-Bar": Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1914-1922
1.7: Scratches across the Heart: Comparing Ireland's Partition
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Brendan O'Leary is the Lauder Professor of Political Science at the
University of Pennsylvania and World Leading Researcher Visiting
Professor of Political Science at Queen's University Belfast. He is
the inaugural winner of the Juan Linz Prize of the International
Political Science Association for lifetime contributions to the
study of federalism, democratization, and multinational states, and
was recently elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy
and
to Membership of the US Council on Foreign Relations. Educated in
Northern Ireland, Oxford, and the London School of Economics &
Political Science he advised parties and governments during and
after
the making of the Good Friday Agreement. His extensive publications
include Power-Sharing in Deeply Divided Places (co-editor,
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), The Northern Ireland
Conflict (OUP, 2004), and Explaining Northern Ireland (co-author,
Blackwell, 1995).
O'Leary colors his work throughout with lively writing, moving past
equivocation and pulling no punches in his assessments of
participants or previous scholarship. He sees the disputatious
state of Northern Ireland as the result of attempts to instill an
Irish or British national identity among its residents....Although
the cumulative length of this work might be daunting, the author
has thoughtfully structured his books and chapters in a way that is
accessible to both non-experts and specialists. Whatever the
audience, this is a work of canonical importance for understanding
Northern Ireland.
*M. J. O'Brien, Franciscan University of Steubenvill, CHOICE*
The detailed coverage is astonishing, the range immense. The book
exemplifies best practice in social science and history, combining
both disciplines, asking analytic questions of the historical
record and widening the remit of social science - above all by
looking carefully both at political calculations and the details of
constitutional arrangements. It is important to stress that he
offers us an analytic history of Ireland as a whole, paying special
attention to developments in the Irish Free State and to the
Republic thereafter.
*John A Hall, McGill University in Montreal, Dublin Review of
Books*
The most prolific, perceptive and powerfully analytical writer on
the north in the last 35 years, Brendan O'Leary, has just produced
his magnum opus.
*Brian Feeney, Irish News*
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