Conservative Politics and the Abolition of Stormont (original) (raw)

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The issue of Ireland was one of high politics in the nineteenth century and for the first three decades of this century. For the Conservative Party, the commitment to the Union was a fundamental one. In the second decade of this century, so strong were feelings on the issue that Party leaders were prepared to toy with unconstitutional action in order to maintain that union.

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  1. Institute of Contemporary British History, UK
    Peter Catterall (Director, Visiting Lecturer in History) & Sean McDougall (Research Fellow) (Director, Visiting Lecturer in History) & (Research Fellow)
  2. Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK
    Peter Catterall (Director, Visiting Lecturer in History) (Director, Visiting Lecturer in History)

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Norton, P. (1996). Conservative Politics and the Abolition of Stormont. In: Catterall, P., McDougall, S. (eds) The Northern Ireland Question in British Politics. Contemporary History in Context Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24606-9\_8

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