Carson: The Man Who Divided Ireland

by Geoffrey Lewis

Book Overview

The partition of Ireland in 1921, and the birth of Northern Ireland as a political entity, was the work of one man above all. Edward Carson, born in Dublin in 1854, was a brilliant lawyer whose cross-questioning of Oscar Wilde at his libel trial brought about Wilde's downfall. An inspiring orator and a political heavyweight at Westminster, his defence of Unionism in the years before the First World War, and of the rights of Ulster not to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852855703
• ISBN13: 9781852855703
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"