by Karen Sonnelitter (Editor)
The only available collection of primary source documents on the subject of Irish-English relations from medieval times to the present day.
Back Jacket
In 1919, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland noted that "there is a path of fatality which pursues the relations between the two countries and makes them eternally at cross purposes." For better or worse, Ireland has frequently been defined by its relationship with its neighbor to the east. And for centuries, English monarchs and governments have struggled with what they came to term "the Irish Question." Through 76 primary source documents running from the eighth to the twenty-first centuries--all of which are contextualized by informative introductions and annotations--this volume explores the political, economic, and cultural impacts of the relationship between Ireland and England.
Author Biography
Karen Sonnelitter is Associate Professor of History at Siena College. She is editor of The Great Irish Famine (Broadview Press) and the author of Charity Movements in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Philanthropy and Improvement (Boydell & Brewer).