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Titre : | The Irish Anti-Partition League and the political realities of partition, 1945-9 (2005) |
Auteurs : | Brendan LYNN, Auteur |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol. 34 n 135 2005) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 321-332 |
Langues: | Anglais |
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Résumé : | At the end of the 1960s the outbreak of widespread civil unrest in Northern Ireland forced the authorities in London and Dublin into confronting an issue which had seemingly been settled some time before. The emergence of the Civil Rights movement among the minority community and the reaction of unionist opinion to it had set in motion a series of events that were to raise once again the whole topic of partition. Yet for a short time in the period immediately following the Second World War it looked as if this subject was, to the delight of some and the dismay of others, about to re-emerge. One of the elements behind this development was the establishment by northern nationalists in 1945 of an organisation called the Irish Anti-Partition League (I.A.P.L.) |
Pays de publication : | Irlande |
Mention de responsabilité : | Brendan Lynn |
Fonds : | Médiathèque |