Ireland and the Great War
'A War to Unite Us All'?
Published on 27. June 2002
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-7190-5924-7 (ISBN)
Description
As the twentieth century drew to a close, people in all parts of Ireland began to recover the memory of the First World War as the last great common experience of the island as a whole. Brings together research whilst re-evaluating older assumptions about the immediate and continuing impact of the war on Ireland. Explores some lesser-known aspects of Ireland's war years as well as including studies of more traditional areas: military, social, cultural, political and economic aspects. Analyses how the experience and memory of the War have contributed to identity formation and the legitimisation of political violence. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
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Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-5924-7 (9780719059247)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Adrian Gregory is a Fellow in Modern History at Pembroke College, Oxford Senia Paseta is a Fellow in Modern History at St Hugh's College, Oxford
Content
Thomas Kettle: An Irish soldier in the army of Europe?, Senia Paseta; Dulce et Decorum: Irish nobles and the Great War 1914-19, Peter Martin; Women and voluntary war work, Eileen Reilly; Work, warfare and wages - industrial controls and Irish trade unionism in the First World War, Theresa Moriarty; The Arming of Ireland - gun-running and the Great War, 1914-1916, Ben Novick; "You might as well recruit Germans" - British public opinion and the decision to conscript the Irish in 1918, Adrian Gregory; Mobilising the sacred dead - Ulster Unionism, the Great War and the politics of remembrance, James Loughlin; Shell-shock, psychiatry, and the Irish soldier during the First World War, Joanna Bourke The road to Belgrade - the experiences of the 10th (Irish) division in the Balkans, 1915-1917, Philip Orr; "That party politics should divide our tents" - nationalism, unionism and the First World War, D. G. Boyce.