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A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913–23
Diarmaid Ferriter
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Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 37. Weight in Grams: 426.
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 Féin, 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 ... Read more
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 Féin, 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781250426
SKU
V9781781250426
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99-99
About Diarmaid Ferriter
Diarmaid Ferriter is one of Ireland's best-known historians and is Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD. His books include The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 (2004), Judging Dev: A Reassessment of the life and legacy of Eamon de Valera (2007), Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland (2009) and Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s (2012). His most ... Read more
Reviews for A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913–23
This outstanding, carefully researched study by Ferriter, professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin, sets the bar high for good writing and scholarship.
Financial Times Summer Reading Pick 2015
Ferriter has been to the forefront of scholarship of this particular period of our history and has brought vigour, detail and honesty to the often vexatious debate ... Read more
Financial Times Summer Reading Pick 2015
Ferriter has been to the forefront of scholarship of this particular period of our history and has brought vigour, detail and honesty to the often vexatious debate ... Read more