Defenders Of The Union: British And Irish Unionism, 1800-1999

Boyce looks at key aspects of Irish and British unionism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland in 1800 was of profound importance in shaping the destiny of the British Isles. The book looks at the way the Union affected Anglo-Irish relations, Protestant/Catholic relations in Ireland, and the social, cultural and economic development of Britain and Ireland.