Keogh, Dermot.

Twentieth-Century Ireland Nation and State.

Dublin, Gill & Macmillan Ltd, 1994. 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. XXI, 504 pages with an illustrated map of Ireland. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Includes the following chapters:– A War without Victors: Cumann na nGaedheal and the Conservative Revolution / De Valera and Fianna Fáil in Power, 1932-1939 / In Time of War: Neutral Ireland, 1939-1945 / Seán MacBride and the Rise of Clann na Poblachta / The Inter-party Government, 1948-1951 / The Politics of Drift, 1951-1959 / Seán Lemass and the ‘Rising Tide’ of the 1960s / The Shifting Balance of Power: Jack Lynch and Liam Cosgrave, 1966-1977 / Charles Haughey and the Poverty of Populism etc.

″With the emphasis on the South, this book looks at the island of Ireland since partition and examines the performances of the two entities created by the collapse of the old Union.

The book looks at the development of Irish states of mind and follows the great change from the dominant farmer-shopkeeper rural culture of the 1930s and 1940s to the more urban, cosmopolitan attitudes of recent decades.

Overshadowing all the achievements and failures of independent Ireland has been the spectre of Northern Ireland.

The author sees Northern Ireland as a self-contained problem and refuses to blame the Troubles for the shortcomings of the Republic in the 1990s”.(Abebooks.com)

• Keywords: Catalogue Irish History Four – Irish Postwar History & Administration · Charles Haughey · de Valera · Fianna Fáil · Irish History · Irish History – Rare · Irish History in the 20th century · Irish Political History · Seán Lemass
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780717116249
• Inventory Number: 44078AB

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