Carson: The Man Who Divided Ireland - Couverture rigide

Lewis, Geoffrey

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1852854545 ISBN 13 : 9781852854546

Editeur : Hambledon Continuum, 2004

Synopsis

The partition of Ireland in 1921, and the birth of Northern Ireland as a political entity, was the work of one man above all others. Edward Carson, born in Dublin in 1854, was a brilliant lawyer whose cross-questioning of Oscar Wilde at his libel trial brought about Wilde's downfall. An inspiring orator and political heavyweight at Westminster, his defence of Unionism in the years before the First World War, and of the rights of Ulster not to be swamped in an independent Ireland, made a united Ireland a political impossibility. While some of his actions were denounced in England as close to treason, Carson's idealism and religious tolerance were untypical of the sectarian bigotry that marred the later history of Northern Ireland. Carson: Father of Northern Ireland is the first modern biography of a major figure in both British and Irish politics.

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À propos de l?auteur

Geoffrey Lewis is the author of biographies of Lord Atkin, Lord Hailsham and Carson: The Man Who Divided Ireland (Hambledon Continuum 2006).

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hambledon Continuum
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852854545
• ISBN 13: 9781852854546
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 290
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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