De Quincey's Disciplines kerosene and explains why divisions over

and explains why divisions over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 proved so formative in the development of the Irish state

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De Quincey's Disciplines kerosene and explains why divisions overDrawing on a broad range of sources, De Quincey's Disciplines reveals the English Opium Eater to be a more complex and contradictory figure than is usually portrayed. All too often pigeon holed as a latter day Roamntic and psychedelic dreamer, Thomas De Quincey is shown here to have been a prolific contributor to the periodicals of his day, on subjects as diverse as astronomy, economics, psychology, and politics. Josephine McDonagh traces the