Terence O'Neill (Life and Times New Series) - Softcover

Mulholland, Marc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190635975X ISBN 13: 9781906359751

Publisher: University College Dublin Press, 2013

Synopsis

When Terence O'Neill came to power as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland in 1963, he proved himself to be Stormont's most controversial leader, stirring up both passion and anger. By meeting with Taoiseachs of the Irish republic, O'Neill intended no less than to end the long cross-border Cold War. Most audaciously, he worked to end the centuries old political divide between Catholic and Protestant. While many saw him as Ireland's great hope, Ian Paisley denounced him as a traitor and Unionist ministers plotted his downfall. Marc Mulholland's study of O'Neill argues for the centrality of O'Neill to modern Irish history. Based upon exhaustive research, it brings to focus a period when Northern Ireland really did stand at the crossroads.

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About the Author

Marc Mulholland is a college fellow and university lecturer in History at St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford. His publications include Northern Ireland at the Crossroads: Ulster Unionism in the O'Neill Years (2000) and Bourgeois Liberty and the Politics of Fear: From Absolutism to Neo-Conservativism (2012).

Review

'Marc Mulholland of the St Catherine's College in Oxford, an established expert on both O'Neill and on the mysteries of the new Conservatism, provides a succinct account of the man and his trials which should be essential reading for anyone concerned to understand the nuances of Northern Ireland rather than the broad stroke treatments we are so often treated to.' Irish Catholic, Feb 2014 'We are indebted to Marc Mulholland in this cogent and well-written reassessment for a glimpse of what "might have been"' Dublin Review of Books, 16 December 2013

About this edition

• Publisher: University College Dublin Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 190635975X
• ISBN 13: 9781906359751
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128