Roscommon : the Irish Revolution, 1912-23 / John Burke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burke, John (Historian), author.

Contributor:

Henry Putney Beers Fund.

Series:

Irish Revolution, 1912-23

The Irish Revolution, 1912-23 series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roscommon (Ireland : County)--History--20th century.

Roscommon (Ireland : County).

Ireland--History--1910-1921.

Ireland.

History.

Ireland--History--1922-.

Ireland--Roscommon (County).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 192 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. County Roscommon in 1912

2. `Declare our unswerving faith': towards the home rule act, 1912

14

3. `People who trust Liberals have a slippery crowd to deal with': First World War to the Easter Rising, 1914

16

4. `Their decisions might not represent the real views of the electors': the Roscommon North by-election, 1917

5. `Sick of the childish mentality which Parliamentarians for years ascribed to them': Sinn Fein growth and the 1918 general election

6. `The rebel organisation is acting as if it alone has the right to govern': the republican counter-state, 1919

21

7. The War of Independence in Roscommon, 1919

8. `We may think the Treaty a rotten, compromising business': from truce to Treaty and Civil War, 1921

3

9. Revolution?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Putney Beers Fund.

ISBN:

9781846828072

1846828074

OCLC:

1127089186

Publisher Number:

99989249056