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.
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County commissioner Thursday approved bids for food services and medical services, that last two major items required to make the switch.
During a statewide jail consolidation in 2008, directed by former Gov. John Baldacci, the jail was turned into a 72-hour holding facility. The county boards its inmates at Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset. It cost the county $520,000 in 2020 to board those prisoners. In 2019, that cost was $777,500.
The county budgeted $340,000 to cover the first six months of 2021 until the planned July opening.