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.
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.
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
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.
Bell's prologue begins with an account of Trafalgar Square's "Bloody Sunday" of November 1887, a demonstration against British coercion in Ireland ending with violence on London streets, to introduce ..."the history of British radicalism identifying with the cause of Ireland." (x) The opening chapter discusses the Rising's gestation and the unsympathetic response of the British left, exemplified by the Socialist Labour Party's failure to provide an obituary for James Connolly, a former prominent member, following his execution. (216) Nevertheless, Bell's main argument is that whilst large sections of the British working class were disturbed by their government's treatment of Ireland, the labour movement, with a few exceptions, failed even to attempt to provide leadership that could give voice to this sentiment. The perspectives of leading Labour figures, trade unionists, socialists, feminists, Fabians, and communists clearly emerge from a large range of primary sources, notably contemporary published materials such as conference reports and newspapers and autobiographies. ...at various points Bell usefully contrasts their approach with that of Irish organisations in Britain, and with the views of interested individuals at home and abroad notably Lenin and H.H. Asquith (when in opposition).
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.
Abstract
Music-making in the internment camp at Ballykinlar in Ireland during the ‘ Anglo–Irish’ conflict, 1919–21, was one of several purposeful recreational activities that the British military ...permitted for prisoners. Apparently cherished by its participants (including the celebrated republican Peadar Kearney) were elementary group lessons in the classical violin and Irish fiddle, which were taught by fellow inmates Martin Walton and Frank O’Higgins, using inexpensive, imported instruments funded by the Irish White Cross. Scrutinizing a range of primary sources, this essay explores how the class functioned in the harsh situation of detention, and attributes its tolerance, even encouragement, by the British to a neo-Victorian paternalistic value-system. It further considers the appeal and meaning that the violin held for students, highlighting its possible value and function as a psychological coping mechanism in the face of ‘barbed-wire disease’, a motivating connection to Irish heritage, home life, and contemporary culture, and even a means of enacting covert resistance to British oppression.
