Edward Carson led the Ulster Unionist resistance to the third Home Rule Bill, and was a brilliantly successful barrister. Alvin Jackson's biography of Carson uses a range of new evidence to unravel the complexities and ambiguities of its subject.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- A CHRONOLOGY OF TWO LIVES -- INTRODUCTION: DUAL BIOGRAPHY -- 1. PRIVATE LIVES -- 2. LAND AND LAW (1879-1929) -- 3. UNITY AND MARGINALITY (1890-1910) -- 4. THE DIMENSIONS OF HOME RULE (1911-1925) -- 5. THE GREAT WAR (1914-18) -- 6. IMAGE, MEMORY AND COMMEMORATION -- ENDNOTES -- IMAGE CREDITS -- INDEX

Lawyer, statesman, creator of modern Nothern Ireland: Lewis sheds light on all aspects of Carson's controversial career.

Freedom or Death is a speech by Emmeline Pankhurst delivered at Hartford, Connecticut - November 13, 1913. It was later transcribed and issued as a pamphlet. The speech was dedicated to the issues of suffrage movement.

"This was a struggle in which the Tories, rather than see Ireland achieve self-governing status similar to Canada, Australia and South Africa, eschewed constitutional precedents, de-stabilised the British state, encouraged civil disobedience and fomented Ireland's drift into civil war." "The purpose of this book is to explain how and why these extraordinary actions occurred. What were they trying to achieve and how did they justify their actions? Why were they willing to pursue such extreme methods?"--Jacket.

Uncovers the transnational movement by Ireland's unionists as they worked to maintain the Union during the Home Rule era. The book explores the political, social, religious, and Scotch-Irish ethnic connections between Irish unionists and the United States as unionists appealed to Americans for support and reacted to Irish nationalism.

The first major assessment of the British fascist and neo-fascist engagement with the Ulster question, from Rotha Lintorn-Orman's British Fascists in the 1920s and early 1930s, Oswald Mosley's BUF in the 1930s and neo-fascist Union Movement in the post-war period, through to the National Front and BNP during the Troubles.