1st Edition
Nicholas Mansergh on Ireland Nationalism, Independence and Partition
1. The Irish Free State 978-1-032-35207-7
2. The Government of Northern Ireland 978-1-032-35249-7
3. The Irish Question 978-1-032-35255-8
Biography
Tipperary born historian Nicholas Mansergh (1910 – 1991) wrote extensively on the process of decolonisation, the prelude to it, and its aftermath. Well known works include The Irish Question 1840-1921, and The Commonwealth Experience. In 1953, he became Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History in Cambridge, and was Master of St. John’s College from 1969 to 1979. He was also editor in chief of the 12 volume record of official documents on India: the Transfer of Power 1942-47.
‘…the originality that was always the hallmark of the Mansergh style: it is subtle, elusive and magisterial.’ D. George Boyce
