A Nation and Not a Rabble: The Irish Revolutions 1913-1923 - Hardcover

Ferriter, Diarmaid

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1468312162 ISBN 13: 9781468312164

Verlag: OVERLOOK PR, 2015

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Packed with violence, political drama and social and cultural upheaval, the years 1913-1923 saw the emergence in Ireland of the Ulster Volunteer Force to resist Irish home rule and in response, the Irish Volunteers, who would later evolve into the IRA. World War One, the rise of Sinn Fein, intense Ulster unionism and conflict with Britain culminated in the Irish war of Independence, which ended with a compromise Treaty with Britain and then the enmities and drama of the Irish Civil War. Drawing on an abundance of newly released archival material, witness statements and testimony from the ordinary Irish people who lived and fought through extraordinary times, A Nation and not a Rabble explores these revolutions. Diarmaid Ferriter highlights the gulf between rhetoric and reality in politics and violence, the role of women, the battle for material survival, the impact of key Irish unionist and republican leaders, as well as conflicts over health, land, religion, law and order, and welfare.

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Diarmaid Ferriter is Professor of Modern Irish History at University College, Dublin. He has written a number of books on Irish history, including The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000, Occasions of Sin: Sex & Society in Modern Ireland, and Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s. In 2010 he presented the RTE TV series The Limits of Liberty.

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• Verlag: OVERLOOK PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1468312162
• ISBN 13: 9781468312164
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 528
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