The Damnable Question: A Study of Anglo-Irish Relations

by George Dangerfield

The Pulitzer Prize-winner in History analyzes the legal, economic, and social turmoils that led to two centuries of conflict in Ireland -- with profiles that humanize the politicians, rebels, and bystanders in this Irish drama. Starting with the Act of Union in 1800 that conjoined Ireland and Great Britain, and moving on through the great famine, the partitioning of Ireland, and other cataclysmic events, Dangerfield untangles a complex story about Gaelic pride doomed to end in violence.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Ireland, Irish Literature

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

Reviews

[Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

Still a damnable question. Some select implications for decolonisation efforts world wide. Mostly is bogged down in the wickedness of the problem which has not changed.

[Bap · Rating 4 out of 5]

England's union with Ireland never took. It was a transplant that the body politic rejected. This is the story fo how the English tried to hold on to Ireland and how it failed, the first unraveling of its imperialist domains after the United states. But the misrule of Ireland was far uglier than the relationship with the colonies.