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Irish Unionism and the New Ireland

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Book cover The Revolution in Ireland, 1879–1923

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Abstract

The complexity of the Irish Unionist response to the New Ireland is well captured in contrasting reactions to the 1916 Rising. One Belfast Protestant businessman wrote to his wife:

We are having a little rebellion here just by way of a change.… Isn’t it all like a comic opera founded on the Wolf[e] Tone fiasco a hundred years ago? … I am only afraid of … isolated Protestants in out of the way places being murdered. Otherwise it is a good business its having come to a head, & I hope we shall deal thoroughly with these pests.1

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Buckland, P. (1988). Irish Unionism and the New Ireland. In: Boyce, D.G. (eds) The Revolution in Ireland, 1879–1923. Problems in Focus Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18985-4_4

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