Between two hells : the Irish Civil War / Diarmaid Ferriter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferriter, Diarmaid, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland--History--Civil War, 1922-1923.

Ireland.

Genre:

History.

History

Physical Description:

328 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Between 2 hells

Place of Publication:

London : Profile Books Ltd, 2021.

Summary:

"In December 1921, five months after a truce between the IRA and British Crown Forces, Sinn Fein negotiators signed a compromise treaty with representatives of the British government. It created the Irish Free State, a self-governing dominion within the British empire, for the twenty-six counties of southern Ireland. Its terms generated turmoil within the republican movement and the country and in June 1922 Ireland collapsed into a cruel civil war, ripping Sinn Fein, the IRA and its female wing Cumann na mBan, local communities and families asunder. While the body count suggests it was far less devastating than some other European civil wars, it had a harrowing impact on the small island and cast a long shadow, socially, economically and politically, which included both public rows and recriminations and deep, often private traumas. Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, the two parties that grew out of the rival factions, have dominated Irish governance since the civil war era but it was only in 2020 - almost a century after the conflict - that the two could see their way to officially sharing power. Drawing on many previously unpublished sources and newly released archival material, one of Ireland's most renowned historians lays bare the course and impact of the war, the lives it cost, the reputations it forged, the fate of its survivors and how this tragedy shaped modern Ireland"-- Jacket

Contents:

pt. One The Course and Nature of the War

1. `No one has ever defined a Republic'

2. The Ulster Rock

3. `Only putting off the evil way'

4. The Call to Arms

5. Lost Leaders

6. Raw Lads and the New Black and Tans

7. Escape Tunnels and Shit Buckets

8. God's Law and Joans of Arc

9. Public Safety

10. The Peasant Mind

11. Giving It to the Bastards

12. The Mind's Exhilaration

13. Fizzling Out

pt. Two Afterlife and Legacy

14. Potatoes, Water and Pensions

15. The Price of a Lost Life

16. Insulting the Dead

17. Broken Lives

18. The Uncertainty of a Soldier's Life

19. Ideal Specimens of Womanhood

20. Two Teeth

21. Poachers Turned Gamekeepers

22. Virtue and Erin, Saxon and Guilt

23. Sidestepping Differences

14. Codology

25. Blind Loyalty Eroded

26. Not Caring Who Did What.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-310) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Nora Barry.

Other Format:

Online version: Ferriter, Diarmaid, 1972- Between two hells.

ISBN:

1788161742

9781788161749

OCLC:

1228317686

Publisher Number:

99988375840