Crisis & Decline: The Fate of the Southern Unionists

by R.B. McDowell

'Receding imperialism usually leaves behind those who have for generations staunchly upheld its authority and flourished under its aegis - Germans in Bohemia, Swedes in Finland, loyalists or tories in the American colonies, Greeks in Asia Minor, Muslims in the Balkans. Among those abandoned adherents of a lost cause were the unionists in the south and the west of Ireland.' So begins R.B. McDowell's preface to this lively, meticulously researched account...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843516543
• ISBN13: 9781843516545
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Lilliput Press
• Length: 224 Pages