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State of the Union

Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan

Print publication date: 2005

Print ISBN-13: 9780199258208

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006

DOI: 10.1093/0199258201.001.0001

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THE HIGH NOON OF UNIONISM: 1886–1921

THE HIGH NOON OF UNIONISM: 1886–1921

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(p.113) 5 THE HIGH NOON OF UNIONISM: 1886–1921
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State of the Union
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Iain Mclean

Alistair McMillan (Contributor Webpage)

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/0199258201.003.0005

This chapter examines the unravelling of the Union between 1886 and 1921. It discusses the continuing link between Union and Empire, the incoherence of Diceyan Unionism, centre-periphery politics, the attempted Unionist coup-d’etat in 1910-14, Bonar Law and Ulster paramilitarism, George V’s threatened vetoes, and primoridal and instrumental Unionism. By 1921, the Union question had resolved into a Northern Ireland question and an imperial question. It left two ragged ends from the 1886 attempt to settle it, namely representation and finance in the outlying parts of the Union.

Keywords:   Home Rule bills, Government of Ireland bills, centre-periphery politics, A.V. Dicey, parliamentary sovereignty, A. Bonar Law, George V, royal vetoes, Ulster Protesetantism, partition of Ireland

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