Iain Mclean and Alistair McMillan
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- February 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780199258208
- eISBN:
- 9780191603334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199258201.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
This chapter examines the unravelling of the Union between 1886 and 1921. It discusses the continuing link between Union and Empire, the incoherence of Diceyan Unionism, centre-periphery politics, ...
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This chapter examines the unravelling of the Union between 1886 and 1921. It discusses the continuing link between Union and Empire, the incoherence of Diceyan Unionism, centre-periphery politics, the attempted Unionist coup-d’etat in 1910-14, Bonar Law and Ulster paramilitarism, George V’s threatened vetoes, and primoridal and instrumental Unionism. By 1921, the Union question had resolved into a Northern Ireland question and an imperial question. It left two ragged ends from the 1886 attempt to settle it, namely representation and finance in the outlying parts of the Union.Less
This chapter examines the unravelling of the Union between 1886 and 1921. It discusses the continuing link between Union and Empire, the incoherence of Diceyan Unionism, centre-periphery politics, the attempted Unionist coup-d’etat in 1910-14, Bonar Law and Ulster paramilitarism, George V’s threatened vetoes, and primoridal and instrumental Unionism. By 1921, the Union question had resolved into a Northern Ireland question and an imperial question. It left two ragged ends from the 1886 attempt to settle it, namely representation and finance in the outlying parts of the Union.
Aaron Edwards
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719078743
- eISBN:
- 9781781702390
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719078743.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
An extension of the British social welfare state to Northern Ireland and the tackling of acute unemployment were huge undertakings for the Unionist administration. The Anti-Partition League of ...
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An extension of the British social welfare state to Northern Ireland and the tackling of acute unemployment were huge undertakings for the Unionist administration. The Anti-Partition League of Ireland (APL) was ‘inspired by hopes of major political changes in the post-war world and in particular by the election to power of the Labour Party’. Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP) agitation on unemployment failed to reach the kind of tempo it would display in 1956–58. By 1957–58, the storm that had been brewing finally broke, leaving 10% of the province's workforce unemployed. The NILP was well disposed to offer its guidance and support to those laid-off workers. 1953 may have been the year that witnessed the first tentative steps to square NILP policies. Protestant workers had clearly suffered economic impoverishment at the hands of an ‘inept’ Unionist regime.Less
An extension of the British social welfare state to Northern Ireland and the tackling of acute unemployment were huge undertakings for the Unionist administration. The Anti-Partition League of Ireland (APL) was ‘inspired by hopes of major political changes in the post-war world and in particular by the election to power of the Labour Party’. Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP) agitation on unemployment failed to reach the kind of tempo it would display in 1956–58. By 1957–58, the storm that had been brewing finally broke, leaving 10% of the province's workforce unemployed. The NILP was well disposed to offer its guidance and support to those laid-off workers. 1953 may have been the year that witnessed the first tentative steps to square NILP policies. Protestant workers had clearly suffered economic impoverishment at the hands of an ‘inept’ Unionist regime.
