02567nam 2200565 450 991078297360332120230617040009.01-282-02480-997866120248010-8264-3232-8(CKB)1000000000725485(EBL)436677(OCoLC)319718473(MiAaPQ)EBC436677(MiAaPQ)EBC5309473(Au-PeEL)EBL5309473(CaPaEBR)ebr11518444(OCoLC)1027200914(MiAaPQ)EBC3002948(Au-PeEL)EBL3002948(OCoLC)928191321(EXLCZ)99100000000072548520180315h20052005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierCarson the man who divided Ireland /Geoffrey LewisLondon, [England] ;New York, [New York] :Hambledon Continuum,2005.©20051 online resource (308 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-85285-570-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Illustrations; Introduction; 1 Dublin; 2 Home Rule; 3 London; 4 Oscar Wilde; 5 The End of Unionist Government; 6 The Naval Cadet; 7 The House of Lords; 8 The Conservative Leadership; 9 Asquith's Home Rule Bill; 10 Ulster; 11 Marconi; 12 The Curragh; 13 Craigavon; 14 War and Peace; 15 Opposition; 16 The Fall of Asquith; 17 Final Attempt; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThe 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 be swamped in an independent Ireland, made a united Ireland a political impossibility. While some of his actions were denounced in England as close to treasonPoliticiansIrelandBiographyLawyersIrelandBiographyPoliticiansLawyers941.5082092Lewis Geoffrey1929-1553359MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782973603321Carson3831830UNINA