Judging Redmond and Carson: Comparative Irish Lives - Hardcover

Jackson, Alvin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1908996935 ISBN 13: 9781908996930

Publisher: Royal Irish Academy, 2018

Synopsis

John Redmond and Edward Carson remain two of the biggest names in modern Irish history. At the peak of their careers as senior members of the British parliament, they were locked together in combat over Home Rule. Divided by the union with Britain, they had surprisingly much in common. Contemporaries saw them together, and routinely judged them in comparative contexts. But with the partition of Ireland and independence, they have been disconnected, viewed wholly apart, and seen in political contexts scarcely imagined by people at the time. This new volume in the ‘Judging’ series is the first dual and comparative biography of Redmond and Carson - the first to assess them as contemporaries would have done. It uses both new approaches and much new evidence to shed fresh light on their sometimes fraught private lives, their professional and political achievements, and their stands on violence and war. The result is a strikingly original reassessment of the two men and their legacies.

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About the Author

Alvin Jackson is one of the most prominent historians of modern Ireland. He is Richard Lodge Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh, and has been lecturer in history at University College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of seven books, inlcuding The Two Unions (2013), and he has also recently edited the Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History (2017). Among his awards, he is an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Royal Irish Academy
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908996935
• ISBN 13: 9781908996930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282