The Damnable Question: A Study in Anglo-Irish Relations

About this book

"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."A Pulitzer Prize-winner in History analyzes the legal, economic & social turmoils that led to two centuries of conflict in Ireland--with profiles that humanize the politicians, rebels & bystanders in this Irish drama. Starting with the Act of Union in 1800 that conjoined Ireland & Great Britain, & moving on thru the great famine, the partitioning of Ireland & other cataclysmic events, Dangerfield untangles a complex story about Gaelic pride doomed to end in violence.