Fatal Path
Fatal Path This is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing…
Specifikacia Fatal Path
Fatal Path
This is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It was a time, argues Ronan Fanning, when violence and the threat of violence trumped democratic politics. It was also the decade of the cataclysmic Great War, of an officers' mutiny in an elite cavalry regiment of the British Army and of Irish armed rebellion.
Historians have wished to see the events of that decade as an aberration, as an eruption of irrational bloodletting. This is a contentious view. And they have have been reluctant to write about the triumph of physical force.
Fanning argues that in fact violence worked, however much this offends our contemporary moral instincts. Without resistance from the Ulster Unionists and its very real threat of violence the state of Northern Ireland would never have come into being. The Home Rule party of constitutionalist nationalists failed, and were pushed aside by the revolutionary nationalists Sinn Fein.Bleakly realistic, ruthlessly analytical of the vacillation and indecision displayed by democratic politicians at Westminster faced with such revolutionary intransigence, Fatal Path is history as it was, not as we would wish it to be.
Fatal Path
Fatal Thaw
Fatal Witness
Fatal Revenant
Fatal Colours
Fatal Finale
Fatal Shore
Fatal Remedies
Fatal Winter
Fatal Act
Fatal Attraction
Fatal Truth
Fatal Affair
Fatal Connection
Fatal Alliance
Fatal Deception
Fatal Proof
Fatal Risk