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

Ferriter, Diarmaid

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1468312162 ISBN 13: 9781468312164

Publisher: Abrams Press, 2015

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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.

Review

“With an unrivaled command of the sources, Ferriter offers a brilliant analysis of the formative decade in modern Irish history. In powerful prose brimming with the new insights of social history, he reveals the multiple fault-lines within the standard political narrative of Irish freedom. Ferriter’s analysis has important implications not only for how we interpret Irish history but also for how, on that basis, we make sense of Irish society and politics today.”
- Kevin Kenny, Professor of History at Boston College and author of The American Irish: A History

“Ferriter has written an excellent scholarly reevaluation of the historiography and events of the Easter 1916 nationalist rising in Dublin, Ireland. Highly readable and deeply researched, this book guides readers through the intricacies of the rising along with the historical use of each precipitating event and how these events impacted relations in Ireland during the remainder of the 20th century...Accessible to a general audience and of great interest to an academic one, this book will be a welcome addition to any collection on Irish history.”
- Library Journal

Edition details

• Publisher: Abrams Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1468312162
• ISBN 13: 9781468312164
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528