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Home Rule dominated both Irish and British politics for 50 years Its history features the key figures in British and Irish history including Gladstone, Charles Stuart Parnell and Michael Collins, Jerry Adams and Tony Blair Home Rule is the basis of Scottish and Welsh devolution, as well as the Northern Ireland peace process This book questions whether these reforms can avert the final breakup of Great Britain 'As an unfulfilled historical possibility, home rule has provoked much debate...Jackson's book is now the best guide' Sunday Times 'Absorbing and highly intelligent study' Roy Foster, Fin

About the Author

Alvin Jackson has been a lecturer in Modern History at University College, Dublin, and is Professor of Modern Irish History at The Queens University of Belfast.