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Author: Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 278
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a guide to over 100 years of Irish history. It is a sustained analysis of its constitutional and revolutionary politics and contributes to our understanding of the causes and consequences of constitutional and revolutionary politics there.
Author: Jason Knirck
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2014-02-28
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0299295834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAscending to power after the Anglo-Irish Treaty and a violent revolution against the United Kingdom, the political party Cumann na nGaedheal governed during the first ten years of the Irish Free State (1922–32). Taking over from the fallen Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith, Cumann na nGaedheal leaders such as W. T. Cosgrave and Kevin O'Higgins won a bloody civil war, created the institutions of the new Free State, and attempted to project abroad the independence of a new Ireland. In response to the view that Cumann na nGaedheal was actually a reactionary counterrevolutionary party, Afterimage of the Revolution contends that, in building the new Irish state, the government framed and promoted its policies in terms of ideas inherited from the revolution. In particular, Cumann na nGaedheal emphasized Irish sovereignty, the "Irishness" of the new state, and a strong sense of anticolonialism, all key components of the Sinn Féin party platform during the revolution. Jason Knirck argues that the 1920s must be understood as part of a continuing Irish revolution that led to an eventual independent republic. Drawing on state documents, newspapers, and private papers—including the recently released papers of Kevin O'Higgins—he offers a fresh view of Irish politics in the 1920s and integrates this period more closely with the Irish Revolution.
Author: Patrick O'Sullivan Greene
Publisher: Eastwood Books
Published: 2020-09
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781916137585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the untold history of the fight for the Irish revolutionary government's funds, the bank inquiry that shook the financial establishment and the first battle in the intelligence war.
Author: Ronan Fanning
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2013-04-30
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0571297412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It was also the decade of the cataclysmic Great War, of an officers' mutiny in an elite cavalry regiment of the British Army and of Irish armed rebellion. It was a time, argues Ronan Fanning, when violence and the threat of violence trumped democratic politics. This is a contentious view. Historians have wished to see the events of that decade as an aberration, as an eruption of irrational bloodletting. And they have have been reluctant to write about the triumph of physical force. Fanning argues that in fact violence worked, however much this offends our contemporary moral instincts. Without resistance from the Ulster Unionists and its very real threat of violence the state of Northern Ireland would never have come into being. The Home Rule party of constitutionalist nationalists failed, and were pushed aside by the revolutionary nationalists Sinn Fein. Bleakly realistic, ruthlessly analytical of the vacillation and indecision displayed by democratic politicians at Westminster faced with such revolutionary intransigence, Fatal Path is history as it was, not as we would wish it to be.
Author: John M. Regan
Publisher: Gill & MacMillan
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9780717128853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most original and stimulating interpretation of the politics of the Irish Free State to be published in decades." Ronan Fanning, Sunday Independent "This is an excellent study, firmly grounded in original research, which sheds new light on this period." Fearghal McGarry, Irish Historical Studies
Author: Arthur Mitchell
Publisher: Gill
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 444
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the wake of the Easter Rising of 1916, Irish nationalism was transformed. The old Irish Nationalist Party was outflanked by the younger and more radical Sinn Fein. In the British general election of 1918, Sinn Fein took practically all the seats in nationalist Ireland. They had pledged themselves to a policy of not attending Westminster - instead they would constitute themselves as Dail Eireann, the parliament of Ireland.
Author: Eunan O'Halpin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2020-10-27
Total Pages: 725
ISBN-13: 0300257473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive account to record and analyze all deaths arising from the Irish revolution between 1916 and 1921 This account covers the turbulent period from the 1916 Rising to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921—a period which saw the achievement of independence for most of nationalist Ireland and the establishment of Northern Ireland as a self-governing province of the United Kingdom. Separatists fought for independence against government forces and, in North East Ulster, armed loyalists. Civilians suffered violence from all combatants, sometimes as collateral damage, often as targets. Eunan O’Halpin and Daithí Ó Corráin catalogue and analyze the deaths of all men, women, and children who died during the revolutionary years—505 in 1916; 2,344 between 1917 and 1921. This study provides a unique and comprehensive picture of everyone who died: in what manner, by whose hands, and why. Through their stories we obtain original insight into the Irish revolution itself.
Author: Barry Whelan
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Published: 2019
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ISBN-13: 9780268105068
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Leopold Kerney was one of the most important Irish ambassadors to several European nations during the tumultuous 1920s and 1930s, and was accordingly drawn into much of the strife and diplomatic intrigue of that era. He is the subject of this book, as the work and life of Kerney is scrutinized and contextualized. Kerney had dealings in Paris during World War I, navigated a complex diplomatic climate in Franco-era Spain, and had perilous encounters with German military intelligence during World War II"--
Author: Matthew Potter
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 520
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHowever, after Independence, the progress of the municipal revolution was stifled by the establishment of an over-centralised administrative machine that belittled the role of cities and towns in Irish life in favour of the rural and agricultural. --
Author: Patrick McGarty
Publisher:
Published: 2020-12-04
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781846828508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing a wide variety of sources in Ireland and Britain, Patrick McGarty has produced an absorbing, comprehensive and insightful exploration of County Leitrim during the Irish Revolution. This wide-ranging study details social, political, cultural and military developments from the introduction of the ill-fated third home rule in 1912 through the First World War, Irish War of Independence and Civil War. The decade witnessed extraordinary upheaval and unrest at both a national and a local level. In Leitrim there was a decisive political transformation with the collapse of the Irish Parliamentary Party and the unprecedented rise of Sinn Fein. McGarty pays close attention to how various modes of resistance were deployed first against British rule and after the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 against the pro-Treaty Irish government. These included political violence and widespread campaigns of boycott and intimidation and this study provides new insights on the nature and implications of both republican and state violence. McGarty offers a novel and compelling account of the Irish Revolution in a so-called 'quiet' county.
