‘No textbook solutions to the problems in Northern Ireland’: Airey Neave and the Conservative Party's Northern Ireland Policy, 1975–1979

This article examines Airey Neave's contribution to the Conservative Party's Northern Ireland policy from 1975 to 1979, a hitherto neglected subject related to the Conservative Party, the Northern Ireland Troubles and more generally contemporary British history. It challenges the widely he...

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Veröffentlicht in:Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature. - Royal Irish Academy, 1904. - 29(2018) vom: Jan., Seite 237-260
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Veröffentlicht: 2018
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