Britain and Ireland from the Treaty to the Troubles

Richard Carr is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Strategy at Anglia Ruskin University. He has authored the books Charlie Chaplin: A Political Biography from Victorian Britain to Modern America, (2017, longlisted for a Kraszna-Krausz book award), and March of the Moderates: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and the Rebirth of Progressive Politics (2019). He co-authored Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon (2016, a Guardian newspaper politics book of the year) with Rachel Reeves MP. He has worked in the think tank and public policy sphere, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. ‘It all happened so long ago’ - contested histories

2. A ‘weariness’ among ‘everybody’ – conflict and the road to 1921

3. The ‘practical experience of administration’ – Cosgrave’s conservatism

4. The logical enigma – de Valera’s divergence

5. Dissent, descent, and difference in interwar discourse

6. ‘English cold’ or a ‘want of immunity – tackling tuberculosis

7. Commonwealth and Monarchy

8. ‘Hot Air Harps – the American dimension

9. ‘Friendly’ neutrality? – the Second World War

10. To conserve or change the ‘rigid society’ – the postwar status quo

11. Travel, trade and the Troubles

Conclusion

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