The I.R.A. at War 1916-1923

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19972890
AutoresPeter Hart (0000-0002-7838-0010, autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Páginas274
Fecha de publicación2003-11-20
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaThe I.R.A. at war, 1916-1923 (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780199252589.001.0001
OpenAlexW4388056310
Open LibraryOL22560984M
ISBN9780199252589
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26

Between 1916 and 1923, Ireland experienced rebellion and mass mobilization, guerrilla and civil war, partition and ethnic conflict, and the transfer of power from British to Irish governments. The essays in The I.R.A. at War propose a new history of this Irish revolution: one that encompasses the whole of the island as well as Britain, all of the violence and its consequences, and the entire period from the Easter Rising to the end of the Civil War. When did the revolution start and when did it end? Why was it so violent and why were some areas so much worse than others? Why did the I.R.A. mount a terror campaign in England and Scotland but refuse to assassinate British politicians? Where did it get its guns? Was it democratic? What kind of people became guerrillas? 3What kind of people did they kill? Were Protestants ethnically cleansed from southern Ireland? Did a pogrom take place against Belfast Catholics? These and other questions are addressed using extensive new data on those involved and their actions, including the first complete figures for victims of the revolution. These events have never been numbered among the world's great revolutions, but in fact Irish republicans were global pioneers. Long before Mao or Tito, Sinn Féin and the Irish Republican Army were the first to use a popular political front to build a parallel underground state coupled with sophisticated guerrilla and international propaganda and fund-raising campaigns. Ireland's is also perhaps the best documented revolution in modern history, so that almost any question can be answered, from who joined the I.R.A. to who ordered the assassination of Sir Henry Wilson. The intimacy and precision with which we are able to reconstruct and analyse what happened make this a key site for understanding not just Irish, but world, history

Citizen journalism · Democracy · Economic history · Irish · Partition (number theory) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Settlement (finance) · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science) · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · 1910-1921 · 1916 · 1921 · 1922-1923 · 20th century · Autonomy and independence movements · British · Civil War · Civil War, 1922-1923 · easter rising · Easter Rising, 1916 · Guerrilla warfare · ireland · Ireland Civil War · Irish question · Irish Republican Army · Partition · Partition, 1921 · Political violence