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England and Ireland have been a problem to each other from time immemorial. Some proposed solutions have seemed for brief periods to be less unsuccessful than others - the Statutes of Kilkenny, the Penal Laws, the Act of Union (maybe one should now add the Downing Street agreement) - but none has ever, at least so far: early 1995, been more than a failure.
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McDermott, J. (1997). A Note on Hopkins and Ireland. In: A Hopkins Chronology. Author Chronologies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375369_4
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