Ireland and the Great War
A Social and Political History
Published on 28. November 2019
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-1-78831-462-6 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the Whitfield Book Prize 2020
On 4 August 1914 following the outbreak of European hostilities, large sections of Irish Protestants and Catholics rallied to support the British and Allied war efforts. Yet less than two years later, the Easter Rising of 1916 allegedly put a stop to the Catholic commitment in exchange for a re-emphasis on the national question.
In Ireland and the Great War Niamh Gallagher draws upon a formidable array of original research to offer a radical new reading of Irish involvement in the world's first total war. Exploring the 'home front' and Irish diasporic communities in Canada, Australia, and Britain, Gallagher reveals that substantial support for the Allied war effort continued largely unabated not only until November 1918, but afterwards as well.
Rich in social texture and with fascinating new case studies of Irish participation in the conflict, this book has the makings of a major rethinking of Ireland's twentieth century.
On 4 August 1914 following the outbreak of European hostilities, large sections of Irish Protestants and Catholics rallied to support the British and Allied war efforts. Yet less than two years later, the Easter Rising of 1916 allegedly put a stop to the Catholic commitment in exchange for a re-emphasis on the national question.
In Ireland and the Great War Niamh Gallagher draws upon a formidable array of original research to offer a radical new reading of Irish involvement in the world's first total war. Exploring the 'home front' and Irish diasporic communities in Canada, Australia, and Britain, Gallagher reveals that substantial support for the Allied war effort continued largely unabated not only until November 1918, but afterwards as well.
Rich in social texture and with fascinating new case studies of Irish participation in the conflict, this book has the makings of a major rethinking of Ireland's twentieth century.
Reviews / Votes
An important addition to the discourse covering the role of Irish society during the First World War. * Journal of British Studies * This substantive book contributes to a deeper understanding of Irish involvement in the Great War. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE * This is a bold and indeed audacious intervention in the historiography of Irish Catholic involvement in British and Allied action during the Great War. Niamh Gallagher's sophisticated interpretation of the Home Front in towns across Ireland enables us to appreciate the ways in which individuals, families, businesses, civic and political leaders, and their supporters, understood Allied war aims and the reasons for contributing and remembering. Richly detailed and illustrated throughout, this is an unusually substantial contribution to the social and political history of Ireland and Irish communities abroad. * Royal Historical Society, 2020 Whitfield Prize winner * Rich in social texture and with fascinating new case studies of Irish participation in the conflict, "Ireland and the Great War" has the makings of a major rethinking of Ireland's twentieth century ... A meticulously presented work of original scholarship, "Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History" is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended contribution. * Midwest Book Review *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78831-462-6 (9781788314626)
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Person
Niamh Gallagher is a lecturer in modern British and Irish history and a fellow of St Catharine's College at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Content
I. Introduction
Contradictions
Irish Civil Society
The Evidence
Chapter Outline
II. Memory, History, and the Great War
Remembering and Writing 1914 to 1918
Politics and Irish Nationalism
Reappraising the War
III. Irishwomen and War-Relief on the Home Front
War-relief across Ireland
War-work in Southern Ireland
War-work in Ulster
An all-Irish Endeavor?
IV. The War at Sea: Encountering the German 'Enemy'
Bringing Ireland within the War Zone
Rural Ireland and "Black '47"
Ireland's 'Enemy'
V. Greater Ireland and Catholic Loyalism
Moderate Nationalism and the War
Irish Catholic Loyalism
'Ireland's half million'
Meeting Irish-Canada
VI. Irish Catholics, Britain, and the Allies
The 'death of innocence', 1914-1915
Home Rule, Recruitment and Britain, 1914-16
Politics, Conscription, and Recruitment, 1916-18
A Righteous Defence
VII. Conclusion: Ireland's War?
Contradictions
Irish Civil Society
The Evidence
Chapter Outline
II. Memory, History, and the Great War
Remembering and Writing 1914 to 1918
Politics and Irish Nationalism
Reappraising the War
III. Irishwomen and War-Relief on the Home Front
War-relief across Ireland
War-work in Southern Ireland
War-work in Ulster
An all-Irish Endeavor?
IV. The War at Sea: Encountering the German 'Enemy'
Bringing Ireland within the War Zone
Rural Ireland and "Black '47"
Ireland's 'Enemy'
V. Greater Ireland and Catholic Loyalism
Moderate Nationalism and the War
Irish Catholic Loyalism
'Ireland's half million'
Meeting Irish-Canada
VI. Irish Catholics, Britain, and the Allies
The 'death of innocence', 1914-1915
Home Rule, Recruitment and Britain, 1914-16
Politics, Conscription, and Recruitment, 1916-18
A Righteous Defence
VII. Conclusion: Ireland's War?