The Origins and Development of Irish Republicanism
Peter Neville surveys the growth of republicanism in Ireland to the present day.
The history of Ireland has been a history of struggle against a foreign occupier. It has also been a history of struggle for a satisfactory relationship with Britain, verging from attempts to remain within the British Empire and Commonwealth to outright rejection of any links with Britain. It is the story of the latter movement which provides the focus for this article.
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