Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1975-1990
"The first woman elected to lead a major Western power and the longest serving British prime minister for 150 years, Margaret Thatcher is arguably one the most dominant and divisive forces in 20th-century British politics. Yet there has been no overarching exploration of the development of That...
| Main Author: | Kelly, Stephen (Historian), |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London [England] ; New York [New York] :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2022.
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| Physical Description: |
xvii, 390 pages : illustrations (black and white), portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Edition: | Paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1. Official leader of the opposition, 1975-9: Thatcher and the Conservative Party's Northern Ireland policy, 1975-9 ; Airey Neave and the Conservative Party's Northern Ireland policy, 1975-9
- Part 2. First-term in office, 1979-83: Thatcher and the evolution of the British government's Northern Ireland policy, 1979 ; The Atkins's talks and the Haughey-Thatcher relationship, 1980 ; Thatcher, the second Irish Republican hunger strike and Anglo-Irish relations, 1981 ; The Prior Initiative, the Falklands War and Anglo-Irish relations, 1982
- Part 3. Second-term in office, 1983-7: The FitzGerald-Thatcher relationship and the evolution of Anglo-Irish relations, 1983-4 ; Anglo-American relations and the Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1985-6
- Part 4. Third-term in office, 1987-90: Thatcher, British state collusion and the genesis of the Northern Ireland peace process, 1987-90
- Conclusion (including epilogue, 1990-8).