Daniel Jackson is to be commended for producing a monograph that significantly advances our understanding of the Unionist cause in Edwardian Britain, but Carson’s campaigns were only part of the story.
Twentieth Century British History, vol 21, no 3
...this is a vital contribution to our understanding of the interconnections of Irish and British politics and suggests how ... Read morea study of Irish political activism in Britain can add considerably to our understanding of broader political culture at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Economic History Review, 63, 1
One of the most important studies in British-Irish history to be published this decade.
University of Ulster
This is precisely the phenomenon examined by Daniel M. Jackson’s Popular opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain (Liverpool University Press, 288pp, £65 hb, ISBN 9781846311987). He argues that Conservative politicians like Andrew Bonar Law were able to bridge the gap with the British masses by exploiting patriotic and sectarian sentiment to such an extent that by 1914 the United Kingdom, and not just Ireland, was on the verge of civil war.
History Ireland, Issue 3, Volume 17
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