The Irish Revolution
A Global History
Published on 3. December 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
376 pages
978-1-4798-3525-6 (ISBN)
Description
How the Irish Revolution was shaped by international actors and events
The Irish War of Independence is often understood as the culmination of centuries of political unrest between Ireland and the English. However, the conflict also has a vitally important yet vastly understudied international dimension. The Irish Revolution: A Global History reassesses the conflict as an inherently transnational event, examining how circumstances and individuals abroad shaped the course Ireland's struggle for independence.
Bringing together leading international scholars of modern Ireland, its diaspora, and the British Empire, this volume discusses the Irish revolution in a truly global sense. The text situates the conflict in the wider context of the international flourishing of anti-colonial movements following World War I. Despite the differences between these movements, their proponents communicated extensively with each other, learning from and engaging with other revolutionaries in anti-imperial metropoles such as Paris, London, and New York. The contributors to this volume argue that Irish nationalists at home and abroad were intimately involved in this exchange, from mobilizing Ireland's vast diaspora in support of Irish independence to engaging directly with radical causes elsewhere. The Irish Revolution is a vital work for all those interested in Irish history, providing a new understanding of Ireland's place in the evolving postwar world.
The Irish War of Independence is often understood as the culmination of centuries of political unrest between Ireland and the English. However, the conflict also has a vitally important yet vastly understudied international dimension. The Irish Revolution: A Global History reassesses the conflict as an inherently transnational event, examining how circumstances and individuals abroad shaped the course Ireland's struggle for independence.
Bringing together leading international scholars of modern Ireland, its diaspora, and the British Empire, this volume discusses the Irish revolution in a truly global sense. The text situates the conflict in the wider context of the international flourishing of anti-colonial movements following World War I. Despite the differences between these movements, their proponents communicated extensively with each other, learning from and engaging with other revolutionaries in anti-imperial metropoles such as Paris, London, and New York. The contributors to this volume argue that Irish nationalists at home and abroad were intimately involved in this exchange, from mobilizing Ireland's vast diaspora in support of Irish independence to engaging directly with radical causes elsewhere. The Irish Revolution is a vital work for all those interested in Irish history, providing a new understanding of Ireland's place in the evolving postwar world.
Reviews / Votes
"Featuring impressive new scholarship on the global dimensions of the Irish Revolution, Mannion and McGarry provide much needed coherence to this emergent but still diffuse and underdeveloped aspect of the historiography, resulting in a cutting-edge reader on a critical theme that currently lacks a single dedicated volume. Most impressively, The Irish Revolution features many neglected or virtually unknown international influences and comparative case studies, including Algerian, Egyptian, Korean, Panamanian, and African-American contexts, making it a novel contribution to our understanding of the international dimensions of anti-colonial (and colonial) discourses, networks, and responses to Irish events." - Gavin Foster, author of The Irish Civil War and Society: Politics, Class and Conflict "A truly groundbreaking volume whose international contributions force a great reimagining of the Irish Revolution. A must-read for anyone interested in Irish history." - Timothy McMahon, Marquette University "A brilliant collection of essays, written by some of the leading authorities on the subject. The book takes us from Dublin to Delhi, from Algeria to Australia, and many other places in-between, and greatly enriches our understanding of the global repercussions and entanglements of what happened in Ireland between 1916 and 1922. Essential reading for anyone who is interested in the global interconnectedness of revolutionary struggle during this period." - Robert Gerwarth, Professor of Modern History at University College Dublin "The Irish Revolution: A Global History, an invaluable synthesis of a new, more globally minded scholarship on the Irish Revolution, is essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century Ireland. By placing Irish events in such rich dialogue with anti-colonial and imperial contexts, the authors cast new light on familiar incidents and individuals while raising new figures from the shadows. The result is a revitalized sense of the global significance of the Irish revolutionary decade, events that continue to reverberate long after the Wilsonian moment." (New Hibernia Review) "A book for students and academics alike, it is likely to inspire further work. This is also an immensely readable book" (Australasian Journal of Irish Studies) "While the editors are conscious of the fact that global history is sometimes criticized for its 'broad-brush approach', it is precisely this approach that I find refreshing if sometimes surprising ... In all, this is a very useful and important study." (Canadian Journal of Irish Studies)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
1 b/w illustration
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
546 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4798-3525-6 (9781479835256)
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Persons
Patrick Mannion (Editor)
Patrick Mannion is Research Fellow in Irish History at the University of Edinburgh, where he works on the AHRC-funded project A Global History of Irish Revolution, 1916-23. He is the author of the prize-winning book A Land of Dreams: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Irish in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Maine, 1880-1923.
Fearghal McGarry (Editor)
Fearghal McGarry is Professor of Irish History at Queen's University Belfast. He has authored and edited many books, including The Rising-Ireland: Easter 1916, Eoin O'Duffy: A Self-Made Hero, and Remembering 1916. The Easter Rising, the Somme and the Politics of Memory in Ireland.
Patrick Mannion is Research Fellow in Irish History at the University of Edinburgh, where he works on the AHRC-funded project A Global History of Irish Revolution, 1916-23. He is the author of the prize-winning book A Land of Dreams: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Irish in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Maine, 1880-1923.
Fearghal McGarry (Editor)
Fearghal McGarry is Professor of Irish History at Queen's University Belfast. He has authored and edited many books, including The Rising-Ireland: Easter 1916, Eoin O'Duffy: A Self-Made Hero, and Remembering 1916. The Easter Rising, the Somme and the Politics of Memory in Ireland.