1. Alvin Jackson, ‘Irish Unionism’ in D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day (eds), The Making of Modern Irish History: Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy (London, 1996), p. 120.
2. Declan Kiberd, Inventing Ireland (London, 1995), p. 3.
3. Gerard Delanty and Patrick O’Mahony, Nationalism and Social Theory (London, 2002), p. 137.
4. See, George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England (1935).
5. Among many books considering other facets of the crisis, see, Cornelius O’Leary and Patrick Maume, Controversial Issues in Anglo-Irish Relations 1910–1921 (Dublin, 2004);