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‘An Entirely Exceptional Case’: Ireland and the British Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Jim Smyth
Jim Smyth
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Trinity Hall, Cambridge
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The Historical Journal , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , December 1991 , pp. 999 - 1007
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