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Northern Ireland is a tiny region on the periphery of the United Kingdom. This fact has had two significant consequences. First, geography and the constitutional settlement of 1920 quarantined the Northern Ireland problem from British politics until recently. Devolution was administratively convenient for Westminster but politically unfortunate for the province. Second, political life in Northern Ireland deviated from British practice. It had the appearance of being British but, in fact, it was more reminiscent of the divided societies of Europe, such as inter-war Austria.
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Guide to Further Reading
Paul Arthur, The Government and Politics of Northern Ireland (Longman, 1983)
W. D. Birrell and A. Murie, Policy and Government in Northern Ireland: Lessons of Devolution (Gill & Macmillan, 1980)
D. W. Miller, has written a fascinating account of ‘conditional loyalism’ entitled Queen’s Rebels (Gill & Macmillan, 1978).
P. V. Bew, B. Gibbon and H. Patterson, The State in Northern Ireland 1921–72 (Manchester University Press, 1979).
D. Rae (ed.), Political Co-operation in Divided Societies (Gill & Macmillan, 1982).
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© 1983 Paul Arthur, Nick Bosanquet, Paul Byrne, Henry Drucker, Patrick Dunleavy, Andrew Gamble, Martin Holmes, Martin Kettle, Joni Lovenduski, Peter Nailor, Gillian Peele, Raymond Plant, R. A. W. Rhodes
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Arthur, P. (1983). Northern Ireland. In: Drucker, H., Dunleavy, P., Gamble, A., Peele, G. (eds) Developments in British Politics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17587-1_13
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