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OverviewOn 4 August 1914 following the outbreak of European hostilities, large sections of Irish Protestants and Catholics rallied to support the British and Allied war efforts. Yet less than two years later, the Easter Rising of 1916 allegedly put a stop to the Catholic commitment in exchange for a re-emphasis on the national question. In Ireland and the Great War Niamh Gallagher draws upon a formidable array of original research to offer a radical new reading of Irish involvement in the world’s first total war. Exploring the ‘home front’ and Irish diasporic communities in Canada, Australia, and Britain, Gallagher reveals that substantial support for the Allied war effort continued largely unabated not only until November 1918, but afterwards as well. Rich in social texture and with fascinating new case studies of Irish participation in the conflict, this book has the makings of a major rethinking of Ireland’s twentieth century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Niamh Gallagher (St Catharine’s College at the University of Cambridge, UK)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Weight: 0.432kg ISBN: 9781350246690ISBN 10: 1350246697 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 04 November 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"I. Introduction Contradictions Irish Civil Society The Evidence Chapter Outline II. Memory, History, and the Great War Remembering and Writing 1914 to 1918 Politics and Irish Nationalism Reappraising the War III. Irishwomen and War-Relief on the Home Front War-relief across Ireland War-work in Southern Ireland War-work in Ulster An all-Irish Endeavor? IV. The War at Sea: Encountering the German 'Enemy' Bringing Ireland within the War Zone Rural Ireland and ""Black '47"" Ireland's 'Enemy' V. Greater Ireland and Catholic Loyalism Moderate Nationalism and the War Irish Catholic Loyalism 'Ireland's half million' Meeting Irish-Canada VI. Irish Catholics, Britain, and the Allies The 'death of innocence', 1914-1915 Home Rule, Recruitment and Britain, 1914-16 Politics, Conscription, and Recruitment, 1916-18 A Righteous Defence VII. Conclusion: Ireland's War?"ReviewsThis substantive book contributes to a deeper understanding of Irish involvement in the Great War. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE * This is a bold and indeed audacious intervention in the historiography of Irish Catholic involvement in British and Allied action during the Great War. Niamh Gallagher's sophisticated interpretation of the Home Front in towns across Ireland enables us to appreciate the ways in which individuals, families, businesses, civic and political leaders, and their supporters, understood Allied war aims and the reasons for contributing and remembering. Richly detailed and illustrated throughout, this is an unusually substantial contribution to the social and political history of Ireland and Irish communities abroad. * Royal Historical Society, 2020 Whitfield Prize winner * Rich in social texture and with fascinating new case studies of Irish participation in the conflict, Ireland and the Great War has the makings of a major rethinking of Ireland's twentieth century ... A meticulously presented work of original scholarship, Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended contribution. * Midwest Book Review * An important addition to the discourse covering the role of Irish society during the First World War. * Journal of British Studies * This substantive book contributes to a deeper understanding of Irish involvement in the Great War. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE * This is a bold and indeed audacious intervention in the historiography of Irish Catholic involvement in British and Allied action during the Great War. Niamh Gallagher's sophisticated interpretation of the Home Front in towns across Ireland enables us to appreciate the ways in which individuals, families, businesses, civic and political leaders, and their supporters, understood Allied war aims and the reasons for contributing and remembering. Richly detailed and illustrated throughout, this is an unusually substantial contribution to the social and political history of Ireland and Irish communities abroad. * Royal Historical Society, 2020 Whitfield Prize winner * Rich in social texture and with fascinating new case studies of Irish participation in the conflict, Ireland and the Great War has the makings of a major rethinking of Ireland's twentieth century ... A meticulously presented work of original scholarship, Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended contribution. * Midwest Book Review * Author InformationNiamh Gallagher is a lecturer in modern British and Irish history and a fellow of St Catharine’s College at the University of Cambridge, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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