Dr Margaret O'Callaghan - Acts of partition: from the Government of Ireland Act 1920 to the Boundary Commission, 1925
Dr Margaret O'Callaghan delivers a talk for this series developed by Queenβs University Belfast with broadcast support from the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ.
Contributor:
Dr Margaret OβCallaghan
Talk Title:
Acts of partition: from the Government of Ireland Act 1920 to the Boundary Commission, 1925.
Talk Synopsis:
This talk describes Partition as βan instrument of policy that marked the [UK] governmentβs failure in the wider problem of governing Irelandβ. It suggests that the Government of Ireland Act was βa landmark in the genealogy of partitionsβ and sets out its immediate background and effects. And it argues that the partition of Ireland βwas not an act, but a processβ that βhappened in stagesβ. It details the sectarian tensions and violence of this period, the Treaty negotiations of 1921 and James Craigβs role as Prime Minister, including his interactions with politicians in London and Dublin. It also identifies key questions about what happened and suggests that whilst the βBoundary Commission would end the partition processβ in 1925, James Craig spent much of his time until then βconsumedβ with βsecurity and the campaign to resistβ the effect which the Commission might have in placing βhis whole entity in jeopardyβ.
Short Biography:
Dr Margaret Oβ Callaghan is an historian and political analyst at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queenβs University, Belfast.
Further Reading:
Old Parchment and Water; the Boundary Commission of 1925 and the Copperfastening of the Irish Border. Bullan; an Irish Studies Journal , Volume IV, Number 2, 2000, pp 27-55 β Margaret Oβ Callaghan
Genealogies of Partition; History, HistoryβWriting and βthe Troublesβ in Ireland. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 9:4, 619-634 β Margaret O'Callaghan
The Evolution and Entrenchment of the Irish Border, 1911-1926: A political geography β Kieran Rankin
Fatal Path: British Government and the Irish Revolution 1910-1922 β Ronan Fanning
The Unresolved Question: The Anglo-Irish Settlement and its Undoing 1912-72 β Nicholas Mansergh
Fatal Influence: the Impact of Ireland on British Politics β Kevin Matthews
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