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Book review: How Irish in Britain struck a blow for independence
Conflict, Diaspora and Empire focuses on those caught in the dichotomy of fighting to bring down an empire where they themselves lived
Just as Philip Larkin argued that the 1960s actually only started in 1963 and stuttered to a halt in 1972, it might be said that constitutionally Ireland had an equally imprecise 19th century. It began with the Act of Union in 1801 and splintered to an end in 1922, with the evolution of two separate political entities.
The act dragged Ireland into a United Kingdom where its identity was never fully regarded as British. English ...
