Constructive Unionism and the Shaping of Rural Ireland, c. 1880–1921

Abstract

Today we can already see a regenerated Ireland, living a new and prosperous life, with a peasantry helped and aided, largely by its own co-operative effort, beyond the peasantry of any other country. Tomorrow we trust to see a self-governing Ireland, still a part of the British Commonwealth. (Barker,Ireland in the Last Fifty Years(1919) 147).