North and south -- 'Prisoners of the city': Catholic Belfast in the late nineteenth century -- A minority divided, 1890-1908 -- The organizer of spontaneity -- 'A theatre where we may expose the wrongs of Ireland': parliamentarian -- 'The real chief secretary': centre stage, 1910-1914 -- Belfast, Ireland, and the war, 1914-1918 -- 'Bloodshed and partition': war in Ireland, 1919-1922 -- The stage contracts: Northern Ireland, 1922-1934 -- Conclusion: 'The Ulster question is a Belfast City question'
Summary
This text offers a re-interpretation of Irish political history in the partition era from the perspective of the losers. It is a general text covering 50 years of Irish political history, as well as a case study of Catholic Belfast and a biography of Joe Devlin
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295) and index
