This new volume in the award-winning Atlas Series presents fresh perspectives on, and a nuanced understanding of, the history of the Irish Civil War (1922-3).
The centenary of the Civil War has prompted wide-ranging research into that tumultuous and complex period in Irish history. Featuring contributions from over ninety leading scholars from a range of disciplines, this book provides new insights into the conflict's regional, national and international dimensions. It includes the first-ever listing of Civil War fatalities and original explorations of issues including propaganda, gender, trauma, culture, labour, land and class.
Produced in partnership with the National Library of Ireland with support from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, the Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New perspectives is richly illustrated with over 400 photographs, archival documents and a series of newly created original maps. From the research team that produced the widely acclaimed Atlas of the Irish Revolution, this volume represents a major and accessible contribution to the historiography of a conflict that has cast a long shadow over Irish life.
Table of Contents:
List of
contributors
Foreword by
Michael D. Higgins
Acknowledgements
Introduction
SECTION 1
Before the War
Chapter 1
The Treaty and
the Irish Civil War: British perspectives
Heather Jones
Case Study -
The Treaty Debates and the Irish Civil War
Liam Weeks and
Micheal O Fathartaigh
Arthur Griffith
Owen McGee
Case Study -
Military Dress and the Irish Civil War
Lisa Godson
Disbandment of
the Royal Irish Constabulary
Brian Hughes
SECTION 2
The War in the
Provinces
Chapter 2
The Irish Civil
War in Provincial Ireland: Landscapes, communities and localised conflict
John Borgonovo
The 'Sliabh na
mBan' Armoured Car
Niall Murray
Case Study -
Graffiti at Ash Hill Towers
Aidan Harte,
Niall Murray and Joanna Bruck
Moore Hall,
County Mayo
John Crowley
Case Study - 'Small
House' Burnings during the Irish Civil War: A County Kilkenny case study
Eoin Swithin
Walsh
Case Study -
Tormore: The strategic use of a cave dugout during Sligo's Civil War
Robert Mulraney,
Marion Dowd and James Bonsall
Liam Lynch
Gerard Shannon
Chapter 3
Civil Confict
in Ireland, 1922-3: Political violence and the consolidation of Northern
Ireland
Adrian Grant
Frank Aiken and
the Breakout from Dundalk Gaol
Bryce Evans and
Rory O'Dwyer
Case Study -
Protestants and the Irish Civil War
Conor Morrissey
SECTION 3
Labour, Land and
Everyday Life
Chapter 4
'What the hell
do they want a republic for?' Labour, the left and the Irish Civil War
Emmet O'Connor
Case Study -
Agrarian Unrest in Civil War Ireland
Heather Laird
The Postal
Strike, 1922
Donal O
Drisceoil
Case Study -
Everyday Life in Dublin during the Irish Civil War
Padraig Yeates
SECTION 4
Propaganda and
Legitimisation
Chapter 5
Irregulars
Versus Slave Staters: Propaganda, censorship and the Irish Civil War
Donal O
Drisceoil
The Cartoon War
Donal O
Drisceoil
Case Study -
Songs of the Irish Civil War
Terry Moylan
Constructing
Identity in the Fledgling State
John Crowley
Case Study -
Parliamentary Politics and the Experience of Dail Eireann during the Irish
Civil War
Gary Murphy
Case Study -
The 1923 Land Act
Terence Dooley
SECTION 5
The Dead
Chapter 6
Death and
Killing in the Irish Civil War
Andy Bielenberg
and John Dorney with Helene O'Keeffe
Case Study -
The Executions Policy
Sean Enright
Portobello
Barracks Banner
Brian Crowley
Case Study -
The Children and Youth of the Irish Civil War
Sarah-Anne
Buckley and Linda Connolly
SECTION 6
Gender, Poverty
and Religion
Chapter 7
The Irish Civil
War: Family life, gender and loss
Lindsey
Earner-Byrne
Case Study -
Violence against Women during the Irish Civil War
Linda Connolly
Cumann na
Saoirse
John Borgonovo
Case Study -
Poor Law Reform in Revolutionary and Independent Ireland
Donnacha Sean
Lucey
The Irish
Bishops' Pastoral Letter, 10 October 1922
Gabriel Doherty
SECTION 7
Imprisonment
Chapter 8
Graffiti and
Geographies of the Women of Kilmainham Gaol during the Irish Civil War
Laura McAtackney
Case Study -
Irish Civil War Imprisonment, Humanitarianism and the Red Cross
Lia Brazil
The Prison
Autograph Book of Sean Sharkey
John Crowley
Case Study - 'Freedom
or the Grave': The mass hunger strike of October-November 1923
Helene O'Keeffe
SECTION 8
Global Connections
Chapter 9
Divided Allies:
Irish-America responds to the Irish Civil War
Michael Doorley
Case Study -
Unfinished Business in Post-Civil War Ireland: The repatriation of Fr Albert
Bibby and Fr Dominic O'Connor
John Borgonovo
Case Study - 'This
Great Institution for Peace': How Ireland joined the League of Nations in 1923
Michael Kennedy
SECTION 9
Legacies
Chapter 10
The Civil War
Legacy: Ireland in the 1920s and 1930s
Fearghal McGarry
Case Study -
Veterans, Memorialisation and the Old IRA Movement in Post-Civil War Ireland
John Borgonovo
Night's Candles
are Burnt Out, by Sean
Keating (1929)
Eimear O'Connor
Chapter 11
'Befitting
Emblems of Adversity': Temporality and disruption in Irish Civil War poetry
Ailbhe McDaid
The Poet in a
Time of Civil War Theo Dorgan
Chapter 12
The
Historiography of the Irish Civil War
Diarmaid
Ferriter
Dorothy
Macardle
Leeann Lane
Chapter 13
Historians and
the 'Silence' of the Irish Civil War: Some comparative perspectives
Siobhra Aiken
Sean O'Casey
Paul O'Brien
SECTION 10
Irish Civil War
Fatalities Index
Andy Bielenberg
and John Dorney
Notes
Index
