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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II: Control
Contributor(s): O'Leary, Brendan (Author)

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ISBN: 0198870728     ISBN-13: 9780198870722
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism
- History | Europe - Ireland
- Political Science | History & Theory - General
Dewey: 941.6
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (0.97 lbs) 304 pages
 
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The second volume of the definitive political history of Northern Ireland.

This landmark synthesis of political science and historical institutionalism is a detailed study of antagonistic ethnic majoritarianism.

Northern Ireland was coercively created through a contested partition in 1920. Subsequently Great Britain compelled Sinn Féin's leaders to rescind the declaration of an Irish Republic, remain within the British Empire, and grant the Belfast Parliament the right to secede. If it did so, a commission
would consider modifying the new border. The outcome, however, was the formation of two insecure regimes, North and South, both of which experienced civil war, while the boundary commission was subverted.

In the North a control system organized the new majority behind a dominant party that won all elections to the Belfast parliament until its abolition in 1972. The Ulster Unionist Party successfully disorganized Northern nationalists and Catholics. Bolstered by the 'Specials, ' a militia created from
the Ulster Volunteer Force, this system displayed a pathological version of the Westminster model of democracy, which may reproduce one-party dominance, and enforce national, ethnic, religious, and cultural discrimination. How the Unionist elite improvised this control regime, and why it collapsed
under the impact of a civil rights movement in the 1960s, take center-stage in this second volume of A Treatise on Northern Ireland.

The North's trajectory is paired and compared with the Irish Free State's incremental decolonization and restoration of a Republic. Irish state-building, however, took place at the expense of the limited prospect of persuading Ulster Protestants that Irish reunification was in their interests, or
consistent with their identities.

Northern Ireland was placed under British direct rule in 1972 while counter-insurgency practices applied elsewhere in its diminishing empire were deployed from 1969 with disastrous consequences. On January 1 1973, however, the UK and Ireland joined the then European Economic Community. Many hoped
that would help end conflict in and over Northern Ireland. Such hopes were premature. Northern Ireland appeared locked in a stalemate of political violence punctuated by failed political initiatives.

 
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