The first major study of Churchill's lifelong engagement with Ireland and the Irish~A long overdue book about the most neglected part of Churchill's legacy -- on both sides of the Irish Sea~From his early childhood in Dublin, through the Home Rule debates and the Anglo-Irish War, to the Second World War and beyond~Illuminates Churchill's crucial role in the foundation of modern Ireland~Casts the debate about Churchill's attitude to Irish neutrality in the Second World War in a new light