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John Horgan

  • Elections, Politics and Society in Ireland 1832-1885 by Theodore Hoppen
    Oxford, 569 pp, £29.50, October 1984, ISBN 0 19 822630 6
  • Ireland and the English Crisis by Tom Paulin
    Bloodaxe, 222 pp, £12.95, January 1985, ISBN 0 906427 63 0
  • The Great Dan: A Biography of Daniel O’Connell by Charles Chenevix Trench
    Cape, 345 pp, £10.95, September 1984, ISBN 0 224 02176 1

In the 1840s, according to Theodore Hoppen’s densely-packed and illuminating study of Irish political realities, ‘bored’ British ministers ‘grappled with the tedious but mildly pressing problems of the Irish electorate’. Douglas Hurd may not yet be bored, but he would have difficulty in bettering the description of the problems he is facing. So few of them have changed, or have been solved.

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