The 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.
In Dublin, the War of Irish Independence (1919-1921) was an intense and dirty battle between military intelligence agents. While IRA flying columns fought the British Army and the Black and Tans in ...the countryside, the fighting in Ireland's capital city pitted the wits of IRA commander Michael Collins against the cloak-and-dagger innovations of British Intelligence chief Colonel Ormonde de l'Epee Winter. Drawing on detailed witness statements of Irish participants and documents and biographies from the British side, this history chronicles the covert war of assassinations, arrests, torture and murder that climaxed in the Bloody Sunday mass assassination of British intelligence officers by IRA squads in November 1920.
Die oberschlesische Abstimmungszeit nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg bildet ein dunkles und blutiges, bislang in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit zudem weitgehend unbekanntes Kapitel der deutsch-polnischen ...Vergangenheit. Das Plebiszit sowie die drei oberschlesischen Aufstände in den Jahren 1919–1921, die in der Aufteilung des Gebietes zwischen Deutschland und Polen mündeten, führten in Deutschland zu einer außerordentlich hitzigen, polemischen und polarisierten Debatte. In der vorliegenden Publikation, die zum hundertsten Jahrestag des oberschlesischen Abstimmungskampfes erscheint, analysiert der Autor die Zeit des oberschlesischen Plebiszits aus der Perspektive der liberalen deutschen Reichspresse. Der Verfasser wendet sich damit einer speziellen Quellenart zu, die bei der Erforschung der Thematik bislang stets vernachlässigt und kaum berücksichtigt wurde: Noch nie zuvor wurde die Haltung der deutschen liberalen Tagesblätter gegenüber der oberschlesischen Abstimmungszeit ergründet. Urbanik legt eine detaillierte, akribische Analyse von Presseberichten über die ausschlaggebenden Ereignisse in Oberschlesien aus den Jahren 1919–1921 vor. Auf diese Weise erinnert er nicht nur an ein dunkles Kapitel deutsch-polnischer Geschichte, sondern präsentiert auch völlig neue Erkenntnisse, die das Wissen über die damaligen Vorgänge nachhaltig bereichern und vervollständigen.
Geoffrey Bell's Hesitant Comrades is the first published history of the policies, actions and attitudes of the British working class towards the Irish national revolution of 1916-21. Drawing ...principally on primary sources, Bell brings to light for the first time important incidents in British/Irish history, including how the leaders of British trade unions were complicit in Belfast loyalist sectarianism; the troubled nature of the Labour Party's relations with its Irish community; and how the Bolsheviks criticised British Marxists over their inaction on Ireland. The author also looks at socialist debates on the compatibility of Irish nationalism with socialism and the contentious 'Ulster question'. Participants examined range from Ramsay MacDonald to Sylvia Pankhurst. Based on in-depth research - with sources ranging from newly discovered writings to reports of police spies - Hesitant Comrades is a scholarly, provocative and groundbreaking perspective on the fragile relationship between the British left and the Irish revolution.
i Women have too often been written out of history. This is especially true in the fight for Irish independence. The women's struggle was three-fold, beginning with the suffragettes' fight to win the ...vote. Then came the push for fair pay and working conditions. Binding them together became part of the national struggle, first for home rule, then for the establishment of an Irish Republic. The Easter Rising of 1916 brought them together as soldiers of the Republic. Through the terrible years that followed, they became the conscience of Republicanism. Following independence, they were betrayed by the men they had served alongside. DeValera and the Catholic Church restricted their roles in society--they were to be wives and mothers without a voice. It was not until Ireland's entry into the European community and the self destruction of a corrupt Church that Irish women were acknowledged for what they had achieved.
This book provides a scholarly yet accessible account of the Irish nationalist youth organisation Na Fianna Éireann and its contribution to the Irish Revolution in the period 1909–23. Countess ...Constance Markievicz and Bulmer Hobson established Na Fianna Éireann, or the Irish National Boy Scouts, as an Irish nationalist antidote to Robert Baden-Powell’s scouting movement founded in 1908. Between their establishment in 1909 and near decimation during the Irish Civil War of 1922–23, Na Fianna Éireann recruited, trained and nurtured a cadre of young nationalist activists who made an essential contribution to the struggle for Irish independence. This book will be of interest to historians and students specialising in the history of the Irish Revolution, youth culture, paramilitarism and twentieth-century Ireland. It will also appeal to the general reader with an interest in the history of the Irish Revolution.
In his exploration of the use of intelligence in Ireland by the British government from the onset of the Ulster Crisis in 1912 to the end of the Irish War of Independence in 1921, Grob-Fitzgibbon ...analyzes the role that intelligence played during those critical nine years.
The Men Will Talk to Me Aiken, Siobhra; Mac Bhloscaidh, Fearghal; O Duibhir, Liam ...
2018, 2018-05-14
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The Men Will Talk to Me is a collection of interviews conducted and recorded by famed Irish republican revolutionary Ernie O'Malley during the 1940s and 1950s. The interviews were carried out with ...survivors of the four Northern Divisions of the IRA, chief among them Frank Aiken, Peadar O'Donnell, and Paddy McLogan, who offer fascinating insights into Ulster's centrality in the War of Independence and the slide towards Civil War. The book's title refers to the implicit trust that shadows these interviews, earned through Ernie O'Malley's reputation as a fearsome military commander in the revolutionary movement-the veterans interviewed divulge details to O'Malley which they wouldn't have disclosed to even their closest family members. Startlingly direct, the issues covered include the mobilization of the Dundalk Volunteers for the 1916 Rising, the events of Bloody Sunday (1920), the Belfast Pogroms, and the planning of historical escapes from the Curragh and Kilkenny Gaol. The Men Will Talk to Me is an insightful and painstaking reflection of the horror of the Irish War of Independence and Civil War; in words resolute and faltering; the physical and psychological debts of the revolutionary mindset-those of hardened Pro- and Anti-Treaty veterans-are fiercely apparent. Subject: Irish Studies, History, Military History
The Anglo-Irish war of 1919-1921 was an international historical landmark: the first successful revolution against British rule and the beginning of the end of the Empire. But the Irish ...revolutionaries did not win their struggle on the battlefield - their key victory was in mobilising public opinion in Britain and the rest of the world. Journalists and writers flocked to Ireland, where the increasingly brutal conflict was seen as the crucible for settling some of the key issues of the new world order emerging from the ruins of the First World War. On trial was the British Empire's claim to be the champion of civilisation as well as the principle of self-determination proclaimed by the American president Woodrow Wilson."The News from Ireland" vividly explores the work of British and American correspondents in Ireland as well as other foreign journalists and literary figures. It offers a penetrating and persuasive assessment of the Irish revolution's place in a key moment of world history as well as the role of the press and journalism in the conflict. This important book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Irish history and how our understanding of history generally is shaped by the media.
The guerilla war waged between the IRA and the crown forces between 1919 and 1921 was a pivotal episode in the modern history of Ireland. This book addresses the War of Independence from a new ...perspective by focusing on the attitude of a powerful social elite: the Catholic clergy. The close relationship between Irish nationalism and Catholicism was put to the test when a pugnacious new republicanism emerged after the 1916 Easter rising. When the IRA and the crown forces became involved in a guerilla war between 1919 and 1921, priests had to define their position anew. Using a wealth of source material, much of it newly available, this book assesses the clergy's response to political violence. It describes how the image of shared victimhood at the hands of the British helped to contain tensions between the clergy and the republican movement, and shows how the links between Catholicism and Irish nationalism were sustained.
