Charles Townshend - The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925

Charles Townshend is the author of the highly praised Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion and The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence, 1918-1923. The Partition forms the third part of his trilogy on how Ireland became independent. His other books include When God Made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Making of Iraq, 1914-21.

This book has its origin in a conference at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St Andrews, aimed at assessing the security issues involved in the centenary of the 1916 Irish rebellion, and other events in the decade of centenaries in Ireland. I am most grateful to Richard English, then Director of the Centre, for inviting me. (At that time, it appeared that the centenary of partition was likely to present a definite security risk, but also that there was some uncertainty about the exact date of that anniversary. This book will I hope at least demonstrate that there is no simple answer on that point, but of course the whole problem has since been transformed by the UKs withdrawal from the EU.) My other debts must be expressed in more general form: principally, as should go without saying, to the true specialists in all the issues involved in the process of partition, on whose work I have depended, and further to the staff of libraries and archives I have worked in over many years, notably the British and Bodleian libraries, the National Archives of the UK and Ireland, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, and the Parliamentary Archive at Westminster.

The staff at Penguin Random House have coped admirably with bringing the book to publication amidst the disruption of the worst global pandemic for a century. The handover of the annotated typescript on a Wandsworth park bench, and of the corrected page proofs in a Holiday Inn car park, will live in my memory. Simon Winder initially took up the idea of the book with encouraging enthusiasm, and has read it with impressive care. Eva Hodgkins unfailingly cheerful assistance, notably with the selection of illustrations, has been sincerely appreciated.

Wandsworth and Keele, January 2021

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