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David McCullagh reviews The Partition by Charles Townshend
Updated / Sunday, 11 Apr 2021
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Irish people demonstrate in London in 1921 about the partition of Ireland under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. (Pic: AFP via Getty Images)
Six One News co-anchor David McCullagh reviews Charles Townshend s new history of the turbulent journey to Irish independence, published for the centenary of the Partition. The fundamental attitudes which produced partition are still in play a century later. The last line of Charles Townshend s new book highlights the importance of understanding how and why the Irish Border came about.
Thanks to its centenary – and its renewed political importance post-Brexit – there have been a number of recent books about the border. Townshend’s is a welcome addition, and forms the last part of a trilogy following well-received works on the Easter Rising and the War of Independence.