Overview

Covering the years 1920–1925, Without a Dog’s Chance is the first major study of Northern nationalists’ role in the Boundary Commission that they, and their allies in the Irish Free State, had hoped to use to end partition and destroy the new Northern state. For Northern nationalists, the partition of Ireland was an intensely traumatic event, not only because it consigned almost half a million nationalists to a government that was not of their choosing, but also because they regarded partition as the mutilation of their Irish citizenship and nationhood.  Without a Dog’s Chance fills an important gap in the history of this period by focusing on the complex relationship between partition-era Northern and Southern nationalism, and the subordinate role Northern nationalists had in Ireland’s post-partition political landscape. Feeling under-valued, abandoned and exploited by their peers in the South, Northern nationalists were also radically marginalised within the new Northern Irish state, which regarded them with fear and suspicion.

Full Product Details

9781788551021

Table of Contents

Reviews

Cousins has done an exemplary job of examining how this tragedy played out in real time, holding up every contrary view and every contradiction to the reader as it crawls to the inevitable conclusion. --The Pensive Quill

This is an interesting book and contains much that is new and of interest. Cousins is keen to portray the mindset of his 'trapped minority' by showing their deep identification with Irish nationalist political culture through the poems and songs produced by the contemporary press. References there abound to Irish history and mythology from the 1798 rebellion to the Flight of the Earls to ancient mythology. This serves to illustrate their deep sense of betrayal at being 'bartered and sold' and ultimately separated from people they considered their compatriots. -- John Dorney * The Irish Story *

Author Information

James Cousins holds a PhD in history from Simon Fraser University, Canada, and master’s degrees in political science and Indigenous public policy. James is originally from the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia, and he currently works as a Senior Policy Advisor for the Ontario Ministry of Indigenous Affairs, specialising in matters related to Indigenous governance and self-determination.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available