Redmond and Carson: Bloodshed, Borders and the Union State

John Redmond and Edward Carson together dominated the politics of Irish Home Rule and unionism between 1910 and 1918, and were major influences on Irish and British politics for an even longer period than this. Yet though contemporaries routinely viewed them together, and though they had a strong po...

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Main Author: Alvin Jackson
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Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique 2019-06-01
Series:Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/3806
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description John Redmond and Edward Carson together dominated the politics of Irish Home Rule and unionism between 1910 and 1918, and were major influences on Irish and British politics for an even longer period than this. Yet though contemporaries routinely viewed them together, and though they had a strong political and personal relationship, the hermeneutics of much modern Irish historical scholarship have precluded any systematic comparison. In fact, comparing Redmond and Carson provides important new illumination on the central themes of their careers, as well as on the political cultures of the multi-national union state within which they each operated.
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Redmond and Carson: Bloodshed, Borders and the Union State
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
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title Redmond and Carson: Bloodshed, Borders and the Union State
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