States of Ireland
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States of Ireland

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eBook - ePub

States of Ireland

About this book

Written in 1972 in the wake of Bloody Sunday and direct rule, States of Ireland was Conor Cruise O'Brien's searching analysis of contemporary Irish nationalism: part-memoir, part-history, part-polemic.

'If The Great Melody (1992) is O'Brien's major academic work, States of Ireland is the one that will endure as a vital moment in Irish intellectual and political history.' Roy Foster, Standpoint

' States of Ireland [is] a book which influenced a generation. [O'Brien] saw that partition, while scarcely desirable in itself, recognized the reality of two different communities in the island, and that the Dublin state's formal irredentist claim on Northern Ireland was undemocratic and even imperialistic, as well as insincere. The republican ideology to which most Irish people paid lip service was a shirt of Nessus, he later wrote: "it clings to us and burns".' Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9780571324309
Edition
0
Topic
History
Subtopic
British History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Conor Cruise O’Brien: An Appreciation
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Preface to Panther edition
  9. Foreword
  10. Part One: A COMMON STATE
  11. Part Two: SEPARATE STATES
  12. Part Three: CHANGING STATES
  13. Epilogue
  14. Postscripts to the Panther edition
  15. Appendix: Statement by author in public debate with Tomás Mac Giolla, President of Sinn Féin
  16. Index
  17. Copyright