Fanning, Ronan
Fatal Path
- ISBN 13:
- 9780571297405
- author:
- Fanning, Ronan
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Faber & Faber
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2013
- Pages:
- 464
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 12.6 x 3 cm
- Genre:
- History, Britain & Ireland, Ireland,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The decade that nearly destroyed the parliamentary system was marked by intense violence and the threat of further bloodshed. Ronan Fanning's narrative explores this tumultuous period in Anglo-Irish history, from the Great War to the outbreak of Irish armed rebellion. Historians have often portrayed these events as an aberration, but Fanning argues that violence played a crucial role in shaping the course of history. Without the Ulster Unionists' resistance and the threat of violence, Northern Ireland may not have come into being. The Home Rule party's constitutionalist nationalists were ultimately pushed aside by the revolutionary nationalists of Sinn Fein. Fanning's analysis is bleakly realistic, laying bare the vacillation and indecision displayed by democratic politicians in the face of such revolutionary intransigence. This is history as it was, not as we would wish it to be.
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