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Ferriter Diarmaid
The Border The Legacy Of A Century Of Anglo - Irish Politics
The Border The Legacy Of A Century Of Anglo - Irish Politics
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Description: Anyone who wishes to understand why Brexit is so intractable should read this book. I can think of several M Ps who ought to. The Times For the past two decades you could cross the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic half a dozen times without noticing or indeed turning off the road you were travelling. It cuts through fields winds back - and - forth across roads and wends from Carlingford Lough to Lough Foyle. It is frictionless - a feat sealed by the Good Friday Agreement. Before that watchtowers loomed over border communities military checkpoints dotted the roads and smugglers slipped between jurisdictions. This is a past that most are happy to have left behind but might it also be the future? The border has been a topic of dispute for over a century first in Dublin Belfast and Westminster and post Brexit referendum in Brussels. Yet despite the passions of Nationalists and Unionists in the North neither found deep wells of support in the countries they identified with politically. British political leaders were often ignorant of the conflict's complexities rarely visited the border and privately disliked their erstwhile unionist allies. Southern leaders anti - partition statements masked relative indifference and unofficial cooperation with British security services. From the 1920 Government of Ireland Act that created the border the Treaty and its aftermath through the Civil Rights Movement Thatcher the Troubles and the Good Friday Agreement up to the Brexit negotiations Ferriter reveals the political economic social and cultural consequences of the border in Ireland. With the fate of the border uncertain The Border is a timely intervention by a renowned historian into one of the most contentious and misunderstood political issues of our time.
Title: The Border The Legacy Of A Century Of Anglo - Irish Politics
Author(s): Ferriter Diarmaid
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781788161794
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 1/7/2020
Category: Geopolitics
Description: Anyone who wishes to understand why Brexit is so intractable should read this book. I can think of several M Ps who ought to. The Times For the past two decades you could cross the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic half a dozen times without noticing or indeed turning off the road you were travelling. It cuts through fields winds back - and - forth across roads and wends from Carlingford Lough to Lough Foyle. It is frictionless - a feat sealed by the Good Friday Agreement. Before that watchtowers loomed over border communities military checkpoints dotted the roads and smugglers slipped between jurisdictions. This is a past that most are happy to have left behind but might it also be the future? The border has been a topic of dispute for over a century first in Dublin Belfast and Westminster and post Brexit referendum in Brussels. Yet despite the passions of Nationalists and Unionists in the North neither found deep wells of support in the countries they identified with politically. British political leaders were often ignorant of the conflict's complexities rarely visited the border and privately disliked their erstwhile unionist allies. Southern leaders anti - partition statements masked relative indifference and unofficial cooperation with British security services. From the 1920 Government of Ireland Act that created the border the Treaty and its aftermath through the Civil Rights Movement Thatcher the Troubles and the Good Friday Agreement up to the Brexit negotiations Ferriter reveals the political economic social and cultural consequences of the border in Ireland. With the fate of the border uncertain The Border is a timely intervention by a renowned historian into one of the most contentious and misunderstood political issues of our time.
Title: The Border The Legacy Of A Century Of Anglo - Irish Politics
Author(s): Ferriter Diarmaid
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781788161794
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 1/7/2020
Category: Geopolitics