John Bull's Other Homes: State Housing and British Policy in Ireland, 1883-1922

by Murray Fraser

State housing became an integral part of the relationship between Ireland and Great Britain from the 1880s until the early 1990s. Using research from both Irish and Westminster sources, this book shows that there was recurrent pressure for the state to intervene in housing in Ireland in a period when the 'Irish Question' was the major domestic political issue. The result was that the model of subsidised state housing subsequently introduced in Britain...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853236704
• ISBN13: 9780853236702
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.7"