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This chapter compares cultural regionalism in Northeast England with political separatism in Southern Ireland. It shows what the two movements had in common up to 1914; how most Irish people moved rapidly to separatism after 1916; and how near and far was the line between cultural regionalism and political separatism according to the circumstances. Ireland was more used to political breakdown. Even so, the Irish stayed part of the British until very late in the day and had more interest in that system than the separatists made out. But first we start with the English.
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Colls, R. (2012). Gaelic and Northumbrian: Separatism and Regionalism in the United Kingdom, 1890–1920. In: Augusteijn, J., Storm, E. (eds) Region and State in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137271303_10
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