Ireland and Partition: Contexts and Consequences

N.C. Fleming is Professor of Modern History, University of Worcester, UK. He is the author of The Marquess of Londonderry: Aristocracy, Power and Politics in Britain and Ireland (2005) and Britannia’s Zealots, Volume I: Tradition, Empire and the Forging of the Conservative Right (2019). He is co-editor of The Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History (2005), Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations since 1800: Critical Essays (2008), Charles Stewart Parnell and His Times: A Bibliography (2011), and Histories, Memories and Representations of being Young in the First World War (2020).

James H. Murphy is Professor of English, Boston College, USA. He is the author of Catholic Fiction and Social Reality in Ireland, 1873-1922 (1997), Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the Reign of Queen Victoria (2001), Ireland, a Social, Cultural and Literary History, 1791-1891 (2003), Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age (2011), Ireland’s Czar: Gladstonian Government and the Lord Lieutenancies of the Red Earl Spencer, 1868-86 (2014), and The Politics of Dublin Corporation, 1840-1900: From Reform to Expansion (2020). He is editor of The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume IV: The Irish Book in English, 1800-1891 (2011).