Book review: Imagining a not so wee North

If we are moving towards a 32-county Ireland anything that prepares the ground for the kind of difficult, uneasy sacrifices needed to make that evolution a success is welcome
Book review: Imagining a not so wee North

Samuel G Beckton is a historian of contemporary Irish History who studied at Trinity College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast.

Sat, 10 Jan, 2026 - 01:00
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  • The Unbroken Covenant: Could Ulster Unionists Have Controlled a Nine-County Northern Ireland 1920 – 1945?
  • Samuel G Beckton 
  • Peter Lang, pb €37.10 

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