The Ulster Party Irish Unionists in the House of Commons, 1884-1911 [Hardcover]

This study of the Irish Unionists in the Edwardian House of Commons fills an important gap in Anglo-Irish parliamentary history in the generation before 1914, and is the first to examine the role of parliamentary action within the political strategies of Edwardian loyalism. In reconstructing a forgotten parliamentary party, Jackson sheds new light on the development of organized Unionism in Ireland, and on the bond between loyalism and British Conservatism.

Jackson shows scholarly skill and subtlety....A genuinely original study of one of the faces of Unionism which has been largely ignored since D.C. Savage's pioneering articles first appeared over twenty years ago. Ulster Loyalism will never look quite the same again. --Albion

Stimulating and detailed....Makes an important contribution by tracing the relationship between political recruitment and the development of policy in Irish politics between 1884 and 1911. --American Historical Review

Important and extremely well-researched book --History

Jackson's close-grained study adds to a growing body of new research that has helped to remedy the imbalance. --The Annals of the American Academy of Political Science