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Sat 09 Sep 2009Dealt a fair royal hand?
JONATHAN BARDONreviews
Crown and Shamrock: Love and Hate Between Ireland and the British MonarchyBy Mary Kenny
New Island, 394pp. €19.99
IN IRELAND the monarchy symbolised many oppressive aspects of English rule, but, Mary Kenny observes, “the institution of ‘the Crown’ and the actual royals (who constituted, above all, a family) were two quite different things in the minds of most people”. This book is an intriguing chronicle of that love-hate relationship between the monarchy and the Irish from the accession of Queen Victoria to our own time.
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