Jason Knirck. Afterimage of the Revolution

In his book Afterimage of the Revolution: Cumann na nGaedheal and Irish Politics, 1922–1932, Jason Knirck follows up on his previous work that addresses the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 debates with this comprehensive and thematic study of the first government of the Irish Free State. It is a welcome addition to what has become a popular subject for study, following Ciara Meehan’s The Cosgrave Party: A History of Cumann na nGaedheal, 1922–1923 (2010) and coinciding with Michael Laffan’s biography of the first prime minister of the Free State, Judging W. T. Cosgrave: The Foundation of the Irish State (2014). Prior to these more modern works, the most detailed study was John Regan’s Irish Counter-revolution, 1921–1936: Treatyite Politics and Settlement in Independent Ireland (2001), which dealt with the early years of Fianna Fáil as well as Cumann na nGaedheal and argued that the former revolutionaries turned their backs on radicalism in independent Ireland.

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