Book review: The short but extraordinary life of the Border Commission

What 'The Root of All Evil' clearly shows is neither Sinn Féin nor the subsequent Free State government had a coherent plan on how to deal with the Ulster Unionists
Book review: The short but extraordinary life of the Border Commission

Cormac Moore: '[The Irish government] failed to grasp that Ulster unionism’s hatred of Dublin was stronger than its love for the Empire.' 

  • The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission 
  • Cormac Moore 
  • Irish Academic Press, €22.99

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