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Fatal path : British government and Irish revolution, 1910-1922 / by Ronan Fanning

by Fanning, Ronan, 1941-

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Faber and Faber, 2013.

941.50821 F213f

Home rule (Ireland) -- History.

Ireland -- History -- 1910-1921.

Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1910-1921.

Ireland -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.

Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Ireland.

9780571297405 (pbk.)

xxi, 423 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Gladstone's legacy -- 2. The constitutional crisis of 1910-11 -- 3. A 'prickly hedge': the charades of 1912-13 -- 4. Reaching the realities -- 5. 1914: Britain's Irish crisis -- 6. 'Cutting off one's own head to get rid of a headache' -- 7. 'Blood in their eyes': the American dimension -- 8. 1919: French leave -- 9. 1920: Ulster: the 'fundamental issue' -- 10. From partition to peace -- 11. The treaty negotiations: 'We are after a settlement' -- 12. 1922: escape from the Irish bog -- Epilogue. The Boundary Commission

A narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. This was the decade of the Great War, of an officers' mutiny in an elite cavalry regiment of the British Army and of Irish armed rebellion. It was a time, argues Ronan Fanning, when violence and threat of violence trumped democratic politics.

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