The Damnable Question: 120 Years of Anglo-Irish Conflict

The Pulitzer Prize-winner in History analyzes the legal, economic, and social turmoils that led to two centuries of conflict in Ireland — with profiles that humanize the politicians, rebels, and bystanders in this Irish drama. Starting with the Act of Union in 1800 that conjoined Ireland and Great Britain, and moving on through the great famine, the partitioning of Ireland, and other cataclysmic events, Dangerfield untangles a complex story about Gaelic pride doomed to end in violence.