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出版Prentice-Hall, 1968
ISBN01350615479780135061541
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Gh21AAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋“Britain's Act of Union with Ireland in 1800 was "the most important single factor in shaping Ireland as a nation in the modern world," asserts Oliver MacDonagh. The opposing forces of British dominion and Irish resistance, states the author, resulted in radical changes in Ireland's political, social, and economic life that remained long after the achievement of independence. Episodes in Ireland's past—often violent ones—grew from this basic Anglo-Irish conflict: the Irish Nationalist-Ulster Unionist struggle, the Catholic emancipation fight, waves of emigration, the Fenian conspiracy and rebellion, the Easter Rising, the formation of the Irish Free State, and the bloody Civil War. But, since the advent of economic reform in 1959, the author says, "the retrogressive trends in Irish social and economic life have been reversed," and never again "will the Irish look back upon an uninterrupted pattern of decline."-Publisher.