Re-approaching the Social Dimensions of the Irish Civil War

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ID23726541
AuthorsGavin M Foster (0000-0001-8529-0753, Concordia University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages1-21
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueIrish Civil War and Society (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137425706_1
OpenAlexW2494441208
ISBN9781137425706
LanguageEN
References cited18

Between the 1916 Easter Rising and the Anglo-Irish Truce of July 1921, the nationalist project in Ireland reached its apotheosis with the emergence of an effective mass movement for an Irish Republic that achieved a remarkable degree of unity even as it accommodated a diverse collection of interests. Six months into the fragile truce with Britain, the Sinn Féin movement (as it was known) began to fracture as differences within it arose over the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the political settlement that set up a 26-county ‘Irish Free State’. By the middle of 1922, southern Ireland had erupted into a bitter and destructive year-long civil war fought amongst rival nationalists that ended with the pro-treaty or Free State camp’s victory over its anti-treaty or republican opponents. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Ancient history · Irish · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Settlement (finance) · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science) · Treaty · Victory · History · Irish and British Studies · Law

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