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Lines of Most Resistance: The Lords, the Tories and Ireland, 1886-1914
 
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Lines of Most Resistance: The Lords, the Tories and Ireland, 1886-1914 (Hardcover)

by Edward Pearce (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 544 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown (28 Oct 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0316648507
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316648509
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,231,524 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Looks through the prism of two momentous political issues - Irish Home Rule and the reform of the House of Lords - to describe not the forces for change, but the forces for resistance to change. It is a revisionist history of British politics from 1886 to 1914, drawing on contemporary media.


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Edward Pearce is a well-known political journalist and broadcaster whose astringent prose has graced the Guardian, Sunday Times and Telegraph.

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5.0 out of 5 stars History of attempts at Irish Home Rule 1880-1920, 8 Dec 1999
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A history of the Savage Tory/Ulster fight against Irish Home Rule. Lord Salisbury is quoted in 1886 as saying "If you allow this atrocious, this treacherous, resolution to pass, you will be untrue to the Empire of England". The Tories killed Home Rule in 1886 and 1893 and encouraged armed resistance between 1912 and 1914 (Ulstermen imported guns from Germany in 1914) The last sentences of the book read "The Conservatives proved at last godparents to an independent state preponderantly governed over 30 years by the surviving IRA commander in the Easter Rising. No course of conduct could in the humorous- patronising sense have been more "Irish". But then "Tory" is a word of Irish derivation" This is a stimulating and entertainingly written account.
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