'The constitutional revolution of 1782 can credibly be presented as the immediate reason for the Act of Union eighteen years later.' (Sean Connolly). Do you agree?
'The constitutional revolution of 1782 can credibly be presented as the immediate reason for the Act of Union eighteen years later.' (Sean Connolly). Do you agree?
The act of union, one could strongly argue, is the defining event of modern Irish history. It brought into effect the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and was a genuine, if flawed, attempt at creating a new Anglo-Irish relationship. 'The most immediately striking aspect of the history …
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…he Irish Act of Union (Oxford 1966)
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Patrick M. Geoghegan, The Irish Act if Union: A Study in High Politics 1798-1801 (1999)
James Kelly, Prelude to Union: Anglo-Irish Politics in the 1780s (1992)
J.G.A Pocock, 'The Union in British History', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (2000)
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