FOR A SETTLEMENT  

Daltún Ó Ceallaigh

December 1997

Paperback, 106  pages

   History  Politics  Law Ireland

    ISBN 0-9518777-5-5

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CONTENTS

  INTRODUCTION

 

1.    THE RISE (& FALL?) OF IRISH REPUBLICANISM IN THE 20th CENTURY

The Emergence of Republicanism

Revolution and Counter-Revolution

Constitutional Republicanism

Constitutional Republicanism in Retreat

Hibernicising the Conflict

Sunningdale for Slower Learners

The Talks Process

Struggle and Consent

The Future of Republicanism

2.    MODELS FOR A SETTLEMENT

A Unitary Irish Republic

Civil Rights

An All-Ireland Institution

A Constitutional Compromise

The Nature of Unionism

Consent

International Law & Strategic Interest

Federalism & Decentralisation

An Honourable Compromise

3.       CONSENT AND COMPROMISE

Nationalist Consent & Constitutional Status

Constitutional Status of the North

British Ambivalence

Optional Jurisdiction

Redelineation

Conclusion

4.    A NATIONALIST CONSENSUS

Factors for a Settlement

The Inoperability of the Situation

Political and Moral Indefensibility

International Pressure

The Reasonableness of the Alternative

A Nationalist Consensus

Opposition to a Nationalist Consensus

The British Establishment

An Historic Compromise

 

ADDENDUM 

 

References

 

notes to chapters

The 1918 General Election

Self-Determination  

Constitutional Change  

Joint Sovereignty

 

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