Smyllie's Ireland: Protestants, Independence, and the Man Who Ran the Irish Times

"A thoughtful, superbly researched and elegantly written study of one the most important pioneering Irish newspaper editors of the past 150 years." —Journal of British Studies
As Irish republicans sought to rid the country of British rule and influence in the early twentieth century, a clear delineation was made between what was "authentically" Irish and what was considered to be English influence. As a member of the Anglo-Irish elite who inhabited a precarious identity somewhere in between...