"This is the first book-length study of the impact of the Great War on women's everyday lives in Ireland, focussing on the years of the war and its immediate aftermath. Fionnuala Walsh demonstrates how Irish women threw themselves into the war effort, mobilising in various diffe…
"This is the first book-length study of the impact of the Great War on women's everyday lives in Ireland, focussing on the years of the war and its immediate aftermath. Fionnuala Walsh demonstrates how Irish women threw themselves into the war effort, mobilising in various diffe…
Covering the period from the Armistice to 1939, the book examines the experiences of Irish soldiers who had fought in the British Army in the First World War on returning home to what became the Irish Free State. At the onset of the War, Southern Irishmen volunteered in large nu…
The years 1920-22 constituted a period of unprecedented conflict and political change in Ireland. It began with the onset of the most brutal phase of the War of Independence and culminated in the effective military defeat of the Republican IRA in the Civil War. Occurring alongsi…
"This is the first full-length analysis of the Irish revolution in its totality, taking into account the wide range of social, economic and political developments as well as the IRA's campaign of guerrilla warfare and the British response to it. Drawing on previously unpublished…
"This is the first full-length analysis of the Irish revolution in its totality, taking into account the wide range of social, economic and political developments as well as the IRA's campaign of guerrilla warfare and the British response to it. Drawing on previously unpublished…
This concise study of Ireland' s revolutionary years charts the demise of the home rule movement and the rise of militant nationalism that led eventually to the partition of Ireland and independence for southern Ireland. The book provides a clear chronology of events but also ad…
This book discusses the Irish revolution of 1916 to 1923, during which Ireland changed from a unified island that was an integral part of the United Kingdom to an island divided into an effectively independent 26-country Free State and a developed government in Northern Ireland …