Atlas of the Irish Revolution
Published on 1. September 2017
Book
Hardback
984 pages
978-1-78205-117-6 (ISBN)
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The Atlas of the Irish Revolution is a landmark publication that presents scholarship on the revolutionary period in a uniquely accessible manner. Featuring over 200 original maps and 300 images, the Atlas includes 120 contributions by leading scholars from a range of disciplines. They offer multiple perspectives on the pivotal years from the 1912 Home Rule crisis to the end of the Irish Civil War in 1923. Using extensive original data (much of it generated from newly-released archival material), researchers have mapped social and demographic change, political and cultural activity, state and non-state violence and economic impacts. The maps also portray underlying trends in the decades before the revolution and capture key aspects of the revolutionary aftermath. They show that while the Irish revolution was a 'national' event, it contained important local and regional variations that were vital to its outcomes. The representation of island-wide trends stand alongside street-level, parish, county and provincial studies that uncover the multi-faceted dynamics at play.The Atlas also captures the international dimensions of a revolution that occurred amidst the First World War and its tumultuous aftermath.
Revolutionary events in Ireland received global attention because they profoundly challenged the British imperial project. Key revolutionaries operated transnationally before, during and after the conflict, while the Irish diaspora provided crucial support networks. The often neglected roles of women and workers are illuminated, while commentators consider the legacies of the revolution, including collective memories, cultural representations and historical interpretations. The Atlas of the Irish Revolution brings history to life for general readers and students, as well as academics. It represents a ground-breaking contribution to the historical geography of these compelling years of conflict, continuity and change.
Revolutionary events in Ireland received global attention because they profoundly challenged the British imperial project. Key revolutionaries operated transnationally before, during and after the conflict, while the Irish diaspora provided crucial support networks. The often neglected roles of women and workers are illuminated, while commentators consider the legacies of the revolution, including collective memories, cultural representations and historical interpretations. The Atlas of the Irish Revolution brings history to life for general readers and students, as well as academics. It represents a ground-breaking contribution to the historical geography of these compelling years of conflict, continuity and change.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cork
Ireland
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
707 figures, 364 maps, 14 tables
Dimensions
Height: 304 mm
Width: 251 mm
Thickness: 68 mm
Weight
5021 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78205-117-6 (9781782051176)
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Persons
JOHN CROWLEY is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University College Cork. He is co-editor of the Atlas of Cork City and co-editor of The Iveragh Peninsula: A Cultural Atlas of the Ring of Kerry and the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine DONAL O DRISCEOIL is a Lecturer in the School of History, University College Cork. He is author of Peadar O'Donnell and co-author of Beamish & CrawfordMICHAEL MURPHY has been Cartographer at the Department of Geography, University College Cork for the past twenty-five years. He has worked on the Atlas of Cork City and The Iveragh Peninsula: A Cultural Atlas of the Ring of Kerry and the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine
Content
CONTENTSPreface President Michael D. HigginsINTRODUCTIONSection I BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONChapter 1 Nineteenth-century Ireland: transformed contexts and class structures (Willie Smyth)Chapter 2 Conflict, Reaction and Control in the Nineteenth Century: the archaeology of revolution (Willie Smyth)Box: Arrests Made Under the Protection of Persons and Property Act, between March 1881 and July 1882 (Frank Rynne)Case study: Living Conditions in 1911 as Reflected in the Census Record Urban and Rural Examples (Catriona Crowe)Chapter 3 Irish Elites: continuity and change (Peter Hession)Chapter 4 Violence and Moderation: the dilemmas of constitutional nationalism (Patrick Maume)Case study: Ranch War (Patrick Cosgrove)Chapter 5 Literary Revival (Margaret Kelleher)Case study: Theatre and the Coming Revolution (Lionel Pilkington)Chapter 6 The Gaelic Revival (Timothy McMahon)Box: The Coming Revolution: 1913 Oireachtas, Galway (Dara Folan)Chapter 7 Horace Plunkett, the Co-operative Movement and the Cultural Revival (Ray O'Connor and Noreen Byrne)Chapter 8 A Revolutionary Generation (Roy Foster)Case study: The Irish Republican Brotherhood (Owen McGee)Chapter 9 Feminism and Nationalism: women and political activism (Margaret Ward)Section II CRISIS Chapter 10 The Home Rule crisis (Frank Callanan)Case study: Curragh Mutiny (Frank Callanan)Chapter 11 'Ulster Will Fight' (Timothy Bowman)Case study: Ulster Solemn League and Covenant, 1912 (Martin Mansergh)Box: Ulster Women's Unionist Council (Diane Urquhart)Chapter 12 'They have rights who dare maintain them': the Irish Volunteers, 1913-15 (Gerry White)Box: Na Fianna Eireann (Marnie Hay)Case study: 'An Abundance of First Class Recruits': The GAA and the Irish Volunteers 1913-15 in County Kerry (Richard McElligott)Chapter 13 The Irish Volunteers in County Galway: evolution, growth and pre-revolutionary configuration, 1913-16 (Mark McCarthy and Shirley Wrynn)Chapter 14 Larkin, Connolly and the Cause of Labour (Emmet O'Connor)Case study: Lockout 1913 (Padraig Yeates)Box: The Irish Citizen Army 1913-16 (Ann Matthews)Box: The Labour Movement in Belfast, 1900-16 (John Gray)Section III WORLD WAR and the EASTER RISINGChapter 15 Ireland and the 'Greater War' (John Horne)Case study: Gallipoli (Myles Dungan)Box: Funeral of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (Gabriel Doherty)Chapter 16 The Battle of the Somme and the Ulster Protestant Imagination (Phillip Orr)Chapter 17 Ireland's War and the Easter Rising in a European Context (Jerome aan de Weil)Case study: Rebellion, Objects, Empire and 1916 (Nicholas Allen)Chapter 18 The Easter Rising (Fearghal McGarry)Case study: Child Casualties 1916 (Joe Duffy) Box: The Irish Citizen Army in the Rising (Ann Matthews)Chapter 19 1916 Proclamation (John A. Murphy)Case study: Court Martial and Executions (Brian Barton)Box: The Rebel King Brothers of Liverpool (Padraig King)Chapter 20 Staging the Rising (Clair Wills)Case study: The Easter Rising in the French Press (Grace Neville)Chapter 21 Ernest Kavanagh (James Curry)Chapter 22 Britain's Irish Question (Ronan Fanning)Section IV THE RISING TIDE Chapter 23 A Political Revolution (Michael Laffan)Case study: Reorganiation of the Irish Volunteers, 1917 (John Borgonovo)Case study: Imprisonment, 1915-18 (William Murphy)Chapter 24 The Conscription Crisis and the General Election of 1918 (Pauric Travers)Case study: 'The day when Irish Labour found itself': the general strike against conscription, 23 April 1918 (Fiona Devoy-McAuliffe)Chapter 25 The First Dail (Mary Daly)Case study: Commission of Inquiry into Resources and Industries (Mary Daly)Case study: The Democratic Programme of the First Dail (Ruan O'Donnell)Section V WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (1)MILITARY DIMENSIONSChapter 26 The War of Independence (Joost Augusteijn)Case study: Brothers-In-Arms: The Tormeys (John Sheehan)Chapter 27 The British Army in Ireland (William Sheehan)Chapter 28 The Royal Irish Constabulary, Black and Tans and Auxiliaries (D.M. Leeson)Box: Reprisals (D.M. Leeson)Case study: Irish Newspapers (Ian Kenneally)Chapter 29 The Irish Republican Army (John Borgonovo)Chapter 30 Cumann na mBan in the War of Independence (Marie Coleman)Chapter 31 Ambushes in the War of Independence 1919-1921 (William Kautt)Chapter 32 Capture of Brigadier General Lucas (Aideen Carroll and Tom Toomey)Chapter 33 Michael Collins and the Intelligence War (Michael Foy)Box: Florence O'Donoghue (John Borgonovo)Box: Paddy O'Donoghue and Violet Gore's Wedding Photograph (John O'Connell)Case study: 'Spies and informers beware!' - IRA executions of alleged civilians spies during the War of Independence (Padraig Og O Ruairc)Chapter 34 Imprisonment and the War of Independence (William Murphy)Box: Hunger Strikes (Justin Stover)Chapter 35 The War of Independence and the Burning of Irish Country Houses, 1921 (Terence Dooley)Section VI. WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (2)POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVESChapter 36 Politics in a Time of War (Michael Laffan) Case study: Dail Courts: a case study of mid Cork 1920-22 (Niall Murray)Box: The Belfast Boycott (Robert Lynch)Chapter 37 Making the Case for Irish Independence (Arthur Mitchell)Case study: Press Coverage from Abroad (Oliver O'Hanlon)Box: The Irish Bulletin (Ian Kenneally)Chapter 38 Losing a War it Never Fought: labour, socialism and the War of Independence (Donal O Drisceoil)Box: Land, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the West of Ireland (Tony Varley)Chapter 39 The Catholic Church (Brian Heffernan)Chapter 40 The Friends of Irish Freedom (Michael Doorley)Case study: The Irish Revolution in Great Britain (Darragh Gannon)Chapter 41 The British perspective (Ronan Fanning)Section VII WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (3)REGIONAL PERSPECTIVESChapter 42 The Geography of the War of Independence (David Fitzpatrick)Chapter 43 Munster: a military overview (John O'Callaghan)Box: Creamery Attacks (Proinnsias Breathnach)Chapter 44 Cork (John Borgonovo)Box: An IRA Observation Post at Candroma, County Cork (Aidan Harte and Colm Chambers)Case study: Limerick (John O'Callaghan)Chapter 45 Leinster (Marie Coleman)Chapter 46 Dublin (Padraig Yeates)Case study: Longford (Marie Coleman)Chapter 47 Connacht (Conor MacNamara)Chapter 48 Sligo (Michael Farry)Case study: 'The terror' in Galway Town (Conor MacNamara)Chapter 49 Ulster (Robert Lynch)Chapter 50 Belfast (Robert Lynch)Case study: Tyrone (Fearghal McCluskey)Section VIII TREATY and CIVIL WAR Case study: The Anglo-Irish Treaty (Michael Kennedy)Chapter 51 The Politics of the Treaty Split and Civil War (Bill Kissane)Box: The IRA Convention, April 1922 (John Borgonovo)Chapter 52 Civil War: the opening phase (Michael Hopkinson)Box: Free State Versus Republic: the opposing armed forces in the Irish Civil War (Gerry White)Chapter 53 Final Phase of the Civil War (Michael Hopkinson)Case study: Michael Collins and the Civil War (T. Ryle Dwyer)Case study: Everyday Violence in the Civil War (Gemma Clark)Box: Imprisonment During the Civil War (William Murphy)Chapter 54 Locating the 'Lost Legion': IRA emigration and settlement after the revolution' (Gavin Foster)Section IX AFTER THE REVOLUTIONOUTCOMES AND LEGACIESChapter 55 Fatalities in the Irish Revolution (Andy Bielenberg)Chapter 56 The Irish Revolution and its Aftermath: the economic dimension (Eoin McLaughlin)Box: Ireland, India and Empire: international impacts of the Irish revolution (Kate O'Malley) Chapter 57 Southern Irish Protestant Experiences of the Revolution (Andy Bielenberg)Chapter 58 The Irish Free State: politics and government (J.J. Lee)Case study: Culture and Society (Terence Brown)Case study: Legion of the Rearguard: The IRA after the revolution (Brian Hanley)Box: Civil War Continued? The Blueshirts versus the IRA (Brian Hanley)Case study: Women in the Free State: gender and the legacy of revolution (Margaret Ward)Chapter 59 'Cold House': The Unionist counter-revolution and the invention of Northern Ireland (Brendan O'Leary)Case study: The Boundary Commission (Robert Lynch)Box: The IRA in the North (Brian Hanley)Case study: Women in Northern Ireland (Myrtle Hill)Section X HISTORY, MEMORY AND CULTUREChapter 60 Cultures of Commemoration: remembering the First World War in Ireland (Heather Jones)Chapter 61 Commemoration and the Irish Revolution (Roisin Higgins)Case study: 'Insurrection' on Irish Television (Luke Gibbons)Box: The Easter Lily (Roisin Kennedy)Chapter 62 The Historiography of the Irish Revolution (Gearoid O Tuathaigh)Case study: The Bureau of Military History (Eve Morrison)Case study: The Military Service Pensions Collection (Marie Coleman)Chapter 63 The Rebel Song (Fintan Vallely)Case study: The Gaelic Athletic Association and the Revolution (William Murphy)Chapter 64 Stories of the Irish Revolution (Frances Flanagan)Chapter 65 The Visual Culture of the Revolution (Roisin Kennedy)Box: The Death of Cuchulainn in the GPO (Roisin Kennedy)Case study: Film and the Irish Revolution (Kevin Rockett)