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East Tyrone sits at the crossroads of Irish politics. This book commences with the struggle between Belfast's 'Wee Joe' Devlin, the coming man of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and the Irish Republican Brotherhood to gain mastery over the burgeoning Ancient Order of Hibernians and, with it, control of popular nationalist politics in Ulster.

Table of Contents

Maps and illustrations
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. A period of nationalist flux: 1898-1906
2. The struggle for popular hearts and minds, 1906-9
3. The Ulster crisis, 1910-14
4. Fenians, farmers and cannon fodder, 25 November 1919-24 April 1916
5. Organic crisis and the rise of Sinn Féin, April 1916-September 1917
6. The Sinn Féin political revolution, 1917-18
Conclusion: ideology and the Sinn Féin ‘revolution’
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/2011
      ISBN13: 9780719084713, 978-0719084713
      ISBN10: 719084717

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      East Tyrone sits at the crossroads of Irish politics. This book commences with the struggle between Belfast's 'Wee Joe' Devlin, the coming man of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and the Irish Republican Brotherhood to gain mastery over the burgeoning Ancient Order of Hibernians and, with it, control of popular nationalist politics in Ulster.

      Table of Contents

      Maps and illustrations
      List of abbreviations
      Introduction
      1. A period of nationalist flux: 1898-1906
      2. The struggle for popular hearts and minds, 1906-9
      3. The Ulster crisis, 1910-14
      4. Fenians, farmers and cannon fodder, 25 November 1919-24 April 1916
      5. Organic crisis and the rise of Sinn Féin, April 1916-September 1917
      6. The Sinn Féin political revolution, 1917-18
      Conclusion: ideology and the Sinn Féin ‘revolution’
      Bibliography
      Index

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