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PublisherUniversity College Dublin Press

ISBN-10190635961X

ISBN-139781906359614

eBay Product ID (ePID)7038770653

Product Key Features

Number of Pages345 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameIrish Boundary Commission and Its Origins 1886-1925

SubjectEurope / Ireland

Publication Year2011

TypeTextbook

AuthorPaul Murray

Subject AreaHistory

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal327.415

Table Of ContentIntroduction ONE - The Partition of Ireland - The Forces at Play TWO The Anglo-Irish Treaty & the Ulster Question THREE - Anticipating the Boundary Commission FOUR - The Commission in Session FIVE - Procedures and Findings SIX - The Boundary Commission's European Context SEVEN - The Division of Ireland - Normative Issues EIGHT - Conclusion Appendices Notes Bibliography Index.

SynopsisIn this comprehensive history of the Irish Boundary Commission, Paul Murray looks at British attempts from 1886 on to satisfy the Irish Nationalist demand for Home Rule, Ulster and British Unionist resistance to this demand, the 1920 partition of Ireland and the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, where the roots of the establishment of the Commission are to be found. The evidence presented at the Commission and the principles on which it based its decisions are analysed against the background of evolving British views on the dangers posed for British and Unionist interests on both islands by a radical redrawing of the 1920 border. New documentary evidence is brought to bear on the motivation of its Chairman Justice Feetham, his susceptibility to external influences, and the significance of his political background as possible factors in his final decisions. The history of the Irish Boundary Commission is shown to also be part of a larger European narrative. This study is, thus, the first large-scale attempt to consider its significance in its wider international context.