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The captive dominion: imperial realities behind Irish diplomacy, 1922–49

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Donal Lowry
Donal Lowry*
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Department of History, Oxford Brookes University
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, when Ireland and Britain are ‘offshore islands’ of an ostensibly ever-deepening European Union, it is, perhaps, relatively easy to overlook that imperial stage upon which both Irish partition in 1920 and the Anglo-Irish settlement of 1921 were enacted. Yet without this wider context, these momentous decisions are impossible to understand fully. Current questions about whether Ireland has essentially been a colony will inevitably continue to be debated, but the imperial circumstances of these events remain inescapable and essential to a full appreciation of the mindset of the leading participants in these affairs.

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Ireland and the British Empire-Commonwealth
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Irish Historical Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 142 , November 2008 , pp. 202 - 226
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Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 2008

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