The Unexpected Stabilization of Control

Abstract This chapter emphasizes how the Second World War unexpectedly stabilized the system of control in Northern Ireland. In the late 1930s the Northern government, like that of Newfoundland, faced possible bankruptcy, and the UUP leadership looked stale and challenged. At the same time, independ...

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Main Author: O’Leary, Brendan
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Oxford University PressOxford 2019
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Newfoundland
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198830573.003.0004
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spelling croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780198830573.003.0004 2024-09-15T18:20:01+00:00 The Unexpected Stabilization of Control The Second World War and its Aftermath, 1940–1957 O’Leary, Brendan 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198830573.003.0004 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/58428903/oso-9780198830573-chapter-4.pdf en eng Oxford University PressOxford A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II page 126-147 ISBN 0198830572 9780198830573 9780191868733 book-chapter 2019 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198830573.003.0004 2024-07-22T04:26:45Z Abstract This chapter emphasizes how the Second World War unexpectedly stabilized the system of control in Northern Ireland. In the late 1930s the Northern government, like that of Newfoundland, faced possible bankruptcy, and the UUP leadership looked stale and challenged. At the same time, independent Ireland was showing evidence of consolidation of its sovereignty, economic development, and stability. The Second World War, and the eventual US leadership of the United Nations against the Axis powers, reversed the rolling out of these patterns. How and why Ulster Unionists benefited more than Irish nationalists from the Second World War is explained. Book Part Newfoundland Oxford University Press 126 147
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