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| Titre : | The Foxite Whigs, Irish legislative independence and the Act of Union, 1785-1806 (2009) |
| Auteurs : | Douglas KANTER, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol 36 n 143 2009) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 332-348 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | The establishment of Irish independence in 1782-3, once regarded as a watershed in Irish constitutional history, has more recently and quite properly been reduced to an achievement of modest of modest proportions. According to the new historiographical orthodoxy, Irish legislative independence was an aberration in a period of increasing British political control, and one that actually encouraged the British ruling class to pursue the political assimilation of Ireland into Britain by means of a union |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Lieu de publication : | Dublin |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Douglas Kanter |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
