Defenders of the Union

D. George Boyce is Professor of Politics at the University of Wales, Swansea. His previous publications include Nationalism in Ireland (Routledge, 1995) and The Irish Question and British Politics 1868-1996 (Macmillan, 1996). Alan O’Day is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of North London. His previous publications include Irish Home Rule 1867-1921 (Manchester University Press, 1998) and Charles Stewart Parnell (Dundalgan Press, 1998). D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day have also co-edited two books for Routledge, Parnell in Perspective (1991) and The Making of Modern Irish History (1996).

• Chapter 1 The Union, D. George Boyce, Alan O’Day; Part 1 Purposes, establishment and definition of the Union; Chapter 2 Weary patriots, D. George Boyce; Chapter 3 The Chief Secretary, Brian Jenkins; Chapter 4 Isaac Butt, Irish nationality and the conditional defence of the Union, 1833-70, Joseph Spence; Chapter 5 Defending the Union, Alan O’Day; Part 2 Modification of the Union; Chapter 6 Irish unionism, 1870-1922, Alvin Jackson; Chapter 7 Defenders of the Union, Carla King; Chapter 8 ‘God will defend the right’, Alan Megahey; Chapter 9 The problems of unionist literature, Norman Vance; Chapter 10 Scientists against home rule, Greta Jones; Part 3 After-effects and entrenchment of the Union; Chapter 11 A Protestant state, Patrick Buckland; Chapter 12 The destructiveness of constructive unionism, Andrew Gailey; Chapter 13 Loyalists since 1972, Gordon Gillespie; Chapter 14 Bigots in bowler hats?, Alan Parkinson; Chapter 15 Unionism, Conservatism and the Anglo-Irish Agreement, Arthur Aughey; Chapter 16 The Union, Paul Bewbio1a Appendix, D. George Boyce, Alan O’Day;