Ireland and the Great War / Keith Jeffery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeffery, Keith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Ireland.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Influence.

Irleand--History--1910-1921.

Local Subjects:

Irleand--History--1910-1921.

Physical Description:

xiv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Summary:

This book explores the impact, both immediate and in its longer historical perspective, of the First World War upon Ireland across the broadest range of experience - nationalist, unionist, Catholic, Protestant - and in civilian social, economic and cultural terms, as well as purely military.

Underscoring the work is a belief that the Great War is the single most central experience in twentieth-century Ireland and that the events of the war years, whether at home in Dublin during the Easter Rising or at the European battlefront, constitute a 'seamless robe' of Irish experience. The book also explores cultural responses to the war and its commemoration since 1918, up to the dedication of the Irish 'Peace Tower' in Belgium in November 1998. It argues that identifying and exploring the Irish Great War experience can contribute to the contemporary Irish peace process.

Contents:

1 Obligation: 'Irishmen remember Belgium'

Enlisting for war service 5

2 Participation: Suvla Bay, the Somme and the Easter Rising

The military experience of the war, abroad and at home 37

3 Imagination: onlookers in France

Irish cultural responses to the war 69

4 Commemoration: 'turning the 11th November into the 12th July'

Irish politics and the collective memory of the war 107

Bibliographical essay: recent writing about Ireland and the First World War 144.

Notes:

"The Lees Knowles lectures for 1998, given at Trinity College, Cambridge"--P. [i].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-195) and index.

ISBN:

0521773237

OCLC:

43286470