A City In Civil War Dublin 1921 1924

Author : Padraig Yeates
Publisher : Gill Books
ISBN 13 : 9780717167265
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A City in Civil War written by Padraig Yeates and published by Gill Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited conclusion to Padraig Yeates's Dublin Trilogy, A City in Civil War tells the story of Dublin's troubled passage to independence amidst the acrimony and upheaval of the Civil War.

Author : Padraig Yeates
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717167240
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A City in Civil War – Dublin 1921–1924 written by Padraig Yeates and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited concluding volume of Pádraig Yeates' 'Dublin at War' trilogyIn A City in Civil War: Dublin 1921–1924, acclaimed historian Pádraig Yeates turns his attention to Ireland's bloody and hard-fought Civil War and its impact on the capital city and its inhabitants.The fascinating A City in Civil War tells the story of Dublin's troubled passage to independence amidst the acrimony and upheaval of the Civil War, a period in which Dublin became the capital city of an independent Irish state for the first time.Once again, conflict raged on Dublin's streets, but this time the combatants were Irishmen – neighbours, friends, families – fighting each other. For a great many Dubliners, life remained a cycle of grinding poverty, but for many southern Unionists, ex-servicemen and anti-Treaty republicans, the city became a hostile environment. And all the while, the Catholic Church strengthened its grip on Irish cultural life, supplying many of the vital social services an embattled government was too poor and too preoccupied to provide its citizens.In his distinctive and engaging style, Pádraig Yeates uncovers unknown and neglected aspects of the Irish Civil War in the capital and their impact on the rest of the country.'Pádraig Yeates excels as a social historian and never loses sight of the ordinary citizen.'The Irish Times 'A powerful social history ... reminds us that for all the headline grabbing events, putting bread on the table was still the most important priority for most'Professor Diarmaid Ferriter, The Irish Independent'Reminds the reader of how daily life went on side by side with the great events of history. In short, this is an excellent addition to the current literature.'Irish Literary Supplement

Author : Padraig Yeates
Publisher : Gill Books
ISBN 13 : 9780717167272
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A City in Turmoil written by Padraig Yeates and published by Gill Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A City in Turmoil Padraig Yeates takes up the story from the end of the First World War covered in A City in Wartime.

Author : Padraig Yeates
Publisher : Gill
ISBN 13 : 9780717154616
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A City in Wartime written by Padraig Yeates and published by Gill. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A City in Wartime reveals how the population fed itself during hard times, the impact of the war on music halls, child cruelty, prostitution, public health and much more.

Author : John Dorney
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 178537124X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civil War in Dublin written by John Dorney and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2017-06-17 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The start of the Irish Civil War was signalled by the artillery bombardment of the Four Courts in Dublin on 28 June 1922. A week later, the Four Courts was gutted and O’Connell Street a smouldering ruin, but the anti-Treaty IRA was driven from the city. Most accounts of the fighting in Dublin end there. The Civil War in Dublin reveals the complete, shocking story of Ireland’s capital during the ten-month guerrilla war that followed – a ruthless and bitter cycle of execution, outrage and revenge. The strategy of the anti-Treaty forces, often ignored or dismissed in previous histories, is brought to the fore. Dorney’s exacting research provides total insight into how the city of Dublin operated under conditions of disorder and bloodshed: how civilians and guerrilla fighters controlled the streets, the patterns of IRA violence and National Army counter-insurgency alternated, and – for the first time – how the pro-Treaty ‘Murder Gang’ emerged from Michael Collins’ IRA Intelligence Department, ‘the Squad’, with devastating effect. The Civil War in Dublin brings the chaos of these years to life through meticulous detail, revealing unsettling truths about the extreme actions taken by a burgeoning Irish Free State and its anti-Treaty opponents.

Author : John Dorney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785370892
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civil War in Dublin written by John Dorney and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Irish Civil War first erupted in Dublin, playing out through the seizure and eventual recapture of the Four Courts, it quickly swept over the entire country. In The Civil War in Dublin, John Dorney extends his study of Dublin beyond the Four Courts surrender, delivering shocking revelations of calculated violence and splits within the pro-Treaty armed forces. Dorney's exacting research, using primary sources and newly available eyewitness testimonies from both sides of the conflict, provides insight into how the entire city of Dublin operated under conditions of disorder and bloodshed: how civilians and guerrilla fighters controlled the streets, how female insurgents operated alongside their male counterparts, how the patterns of IRA violence and National Army counter-insurgency alternated, and-for the first time-how the pro-Treaty 'Murder Gang' emerged from Michael Collins' IRA Intelligence Department, 'the Squad', with devastating and ruthless effect. The Civil War in Dublin brings the chaos of life in the city of Dublin to life through meticulous detail, and it reveals unsettling truths about the extreme actions taken by a burgeoning Irish Free State and its Anti-Treaty opponents. [Subject: Irish Studies, History, Military History, Dublin]

Author : Síobhra Aiken
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 1788551672
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Wounds written by Síobhra Aiken and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the widespread scholarly and popular belief that the Irish Civil War (1922–1923) was followed by a ‘traumatic silence’. It achieves this by opening an alternative archive of published testimonies which were largely produced in the 1920s and 1930s; testimonies were written by pro- and anti-treaty men and women, in both English and Irish. Nearly all have eluded sustained scholarly attention to date. However, the act of smuggling private, painful experience into the public realm, especially when it challenged official memory making (or even forgetting), demanded the cautious deployment of self-protective narrative strategies. As a result, many testimonies from the Irish Civil War emerge in non-conventional, hybridised and fictionalised forms of life writing. This book re-introduces a number of these testimonies into public debate. It considers contemporary understandings of mental illness and how a number of veterans – both men and women – self-consciously engaged in projects of therapeutic writing as a means to ‘heal’ the ‘spiritual wounds’ of civil war. It also outlines the prevalence of literary representations of revolutionary sexual violence, challenging the assumptions that sexual violence during the Irish revolution was either ‘rare’ or ‘hidden’.

Author : Arthur Mathews
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 1785375105
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walled in by Hate written by Arthur Mathews and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1927, at just thirty-five years old, Kevin O’Higgins was assassinated on his way to Mass in Booterstown, Co. Dublin. A reviled figure for anti-Treaty republicans, O’Higgins became the target of particular venom for his vocal support of the Free State government’s execution policy during the Civil War, which saw seventy-seven IRA men die before firing squads, including the best man at his wedding, Rory O’Connor.In Walled in By Hate, Arthur Mathews examines not just the life and death of O’Higgins, focusing on that most acrimonious time in his life, but also those of his contemporaries, such as O’Connor and Erskine Childers, who shaped the course of events around him. He also delves deep into O’Higgins’s relationships with the women around him and chronicles the reactions of the men who killed him, subjects that, until now, have remained largely unexplored.One of the most compelling characters to have emerged from the conflict, and still the target of vitriol today, the tragic story of Kevin O’Higgins encapsulates the bitter divisions of a time in Irish history that continue to echo in today’s Ireland.

Author : Conor McNamara
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 1788550803
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liam Mellows written by Conor McNamara and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark new study of the life of Republican leader Liam Mellows gathers letters, speeches, articles and IRA documents from archives in Ireland, the UK and the United States together for the first time to form an insightful analysis of Mellows’ short but dramatic life. It examines his beliefs, fraught personal relationships, political betrayals and intrigue, and his struggle in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds. Mellows was at the forefront of the Republican movement from its inception. After the Easter Rebellion, he spent four years as the representative of the IRA in the United States, but his time there was deeply unhappy: jailed in the infamous Tombs Prison while his comrades dithered over his bail, he was also branded an informer by the Mayor of New York. Back in Ireland in 1920, Mellows was responsible for buying and distributing arms during the War of Independence. Bitterly opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty, he was a key opponent of Michael Collins, and his role in occupying the Four Courts in June 1922 was central to the outbreak of the Civil War. His execution by the Free State in December 1922 was one of the most divisive moments in the foundation of the state, and he remains an enigmatic icon for Irish republicans to this day.

Author : Richard S. Grayson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1108611427
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dublin's Great Wars written by Richard S. Grayson and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the Irish Revolution.