Product Description: Most of the independent nations of the twentieth century have been racked by political disorder and social instability. Ireland is one of the few to have successfully established a stable democratic order. In this book, Jeffrey Prager examines the first decade of Irish independence in order to explain how the Republic of Ireland achieved democracy...read more

Product Description: Historiography has highlighted Ireland's sixteenth-century rebellions and ignored its revolution. The transformation of the island's political personality in the course of the middle Tudor period must be the last remarked-upon change in its whole history...read more

Product Description: To mark the 60th anniversary of the Constitution of the Republic of Ireland, this collection of essays covers the most significant aspects of Irish constitutional law and jurisprudence. It offers an insight into the changing role of the constitution in Ireland over the past 60 years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This pioneering book seeks to transcend the limitations of separate English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh histories by taking the archipelago made up of the islands of Britain and Ireland as a single unit of study. This is a story of the creation of a British state system if not a British state, with the incorporation of Wales into the English state, the creation of a kingdom of Ireland dependent on the English Crown and of a confederation of the Scottish and English crowns; and it is the story of how the various peoples of the archipelago interacted and became different peoples as a result of that interaction...read more

The central thesis of this work is that Ireland, if it is to be reunited must return to the original status of republic that it enjoyed during the years 1919 to 1922. The all-Ireland Republic as recognized by Britain in the Treaty Settlement must be restored not through violence or physical force, but through constitutional and legal means. This splendid and detailed study takes the reader through the thicket of Irish constitutional history and ultimately suggests a solution to the present situation.