Historical, Philosophical, Political and Law Sciences, Culturology and Study of Art. Issues of Theory and Practice. Tambov: Gramota, 2012. № 4. Part 1. P. 120-123.
DOYLE'S "NORTH" POLICY AND REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN ULSTER OF 1920-1921
Mel'nikova Svetlana Viktorovna
Komsomolsk-on-Amur
Abstract. The author considers the role assigned by orthodox republicanism to Ulster during the Irish Revolution (1916-1922), and shows that Doyle's policy in relation to Ulster was notable for utopianism. As a result the Republican political and military leadership of the South considered Ulster as the tool for their own goals achievement starting the policy of revolution export in March 1921, the set of measures for Ulster unionist regime destabilizing. This policy contributed to the increase in violence and chaos, which caused sufferings mostly to Catholic minority.
Key words and phrases: "Северная" политика Дойла, Северная Ирландская республиканская армия (ИРА), "экспорт революции", экономический бойкот Ольстера, Doyle's "North" policy, Northern Irish Republican Army (IRA), "revolution export", economic boycott of Ulster
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