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[From book cover:] This volume is a collection of letters between politicians in Northern Ireland in the 1930s about government policies and north-south relations. While some of the language reflects the assumptions of the 1930s many of the issues -- power sharing in local government and the improvement of north-south links -- have a sharp contemporary resonance. The correspondence is between liberals, not-so-liberal unionists and nationalists. It covers the creation of the Irish Association, which was founded in 1938 to remove 'passion and prejudice' in Ireland and replace it with tolerance and understanding. The letters are revealing for north-south relations at the outbreak of the Second World War.