Culture and Anarchy in Ireland, 1890-1939

By F.S.L. Lyons,

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A balanced attempt to come to grips with the problems of the Irish body politic and with the seeds of those problems in the more recent past.

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Lyons faced head-on the themes of cultural and sectarian antagonism in Ireland from the death of the constitutionalist nationalist leader Parnell in 1891 to independent Ireland’s decision to remain neutral in World War II, using sources that were as much literary as political, and at the end projecting the divisions in Irish society forward to the then-current violence in the North. The tone was notably acerbic, even verging towards despair, but also employing bitter humour.

A great historian, he died prematurely a…

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