Atlas of the Irish Civil War

List of
contributors



Foreword by
Michael D. Higgins



Acknowledgements




Introduction



 



SECTION 1



Before the War



 



Chapter 1



The Treaty and
the Irish Civil War: British perspectives



Heather Jones



 



Case Study –
The Treaty Debates and the Irish Civil War



Liam Weeks and
Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh



 



Arthur Griffith




Owen McGee



 



Case Study –
Military Dress and the Irish Civil War



Lisa Godson



 



Disbandment of
the Royal Irish Constabulary



Brian Hughes



 



SECTION 2



The War in the
Provinces



 



Chapter 2



The Irish Civil
War in Provincial Ireland: Landscapes, communities and localised conflict



John Borgonovo



 



The ‘Sliabh na
mBan’ Armoured Car



Niall Murray



 



Case Study –
Graffiti at Ash Hill Towers



Aidan Harte,
Niall Murray and Joanna Brück



 



Moore Hall,
County Mayo



John Crowley



 



Case Study – ‘Small
House’ Burnings during the Irish Civil War: A County Kilkenny case study



Eoin Swithin
Walsh



 



Case Study –
Tormore: The strategic use of a cave dugout during Sligo’s Civil War



Robert Mulraney,
Marion Dowd and James Bonsall



 



Liam Lynch



Gerard Shannon



 



Chapter 3



Civil Confict
in Ireland, 1922–3: Political violence and the consolidation of Northern
Ireland



Adrian Grant



 



Frank Aiken and
the Breakout from Dundalk Gaol



Bryce Evans and
Rory O’Dwyer



 



Case Study –
Protestants and the Irish Civil War



Conor Morrissey



 



SECTION 3



Labour, Land and
Everyday Life



 



Chapter 4



‘What the hell
do they want a republic for?’ Labour, the left and the Irish Civil War



Emmet O’Connor



 



Case Study –
Agrarian Unrest in Civil War Ireland



Heather Laird



 



The Postal
Strike, 1922



Donal Ó
Drisceoil



 



Case Study –
Everyday Life in Dublin during the Irish Civil War



Pádraig Yeates



 



SECTION 4



Propaganda and
Legitimisation



 



Chapter 5



Irregulars
Versus Slave Staters: Propaganda, censorship and the Irish Civil War



Donal Ó
Drisceoil



 



The Cartoon War




Donal Ó
Drisceoil



 



Case Study –
Songs of the Irish Civil War



Terry Moylan



 



Constructing
Identity in the Fledgling State



John Crowley



 



Case Study –
Parliamentary Politics and the Experience of Dáil Éireann during the Irish
Civil War



Gary Murphy



 



Case Study –
The 1923 Land Act



Terence Dooley



 



SECTION 5



The Dead



 



Chapter 6



Death and
Killing in the Irish Civil War



Andy Bielenberg
and John Dorney with Hélène O’Keeffe



 



Case Study –
The Executions Policy



Seán Enright



 



Portobello
Barracks Banner



Brian Crowley



 



Case Study –
The Children and Youth of the Irish Civil War



Sarah-Anne
Buckley and Linda Connolly



 



SECTION 6



Gender, Poverty
and Religion



 



Chapter 7



The Irish Civil
War: Family life, gender and loss



Lindsey
Earner-Byrne



 



Case Study –
Violence against Women during the Irish Civil War



Linda Connolly



 



Cumann na
Saoirse



John Borgonovo



 



Case Study –
Poor Law Reform in Revolutionary and Independent Ireland



Donnacha Seán
Lucey



 



The Irish
Bishops’ Pastoral Letter, 10 October 1922



Gabriel Doherty



 



SECTION 7



Imprisonment



 



Chapter 8



Graffiti and
Geographies of the Women of Kilmainham Gaol during the Irish Civil War



Laura McAtackney



 



Case Study –
Irish Civil War Imprisonment, Humanitarianism and the Red Cross



Lia Brazil



 



The Prison
Autograph Book of Seán Sharkey



John Crowley



 



Case Study – ‘Freedom
or the Grave’: The mass hunger strike of October–November 1923



Hélène O’Keeffe



 



SECTION 8



Global Connections




 



Chapter 9



Divided Allies:
Irish-America responds to the Irish Civil War



Michael Doorley



 



Case Study –
Unfinished Business in Post-Civil War Ireland: The repatriation of Fr Albert
Bibby and Fr Dominic O’Connor



John Borgonovo



 



Case Study – ‘This
Great Institution for Peace’: How Ireland joined the League of Nations in 1923



Michael Kennedy



 



SECTION 9



Legacies



 



Chapter 10



The Civil War
Legacy: Ireland in the 1920s and 1930s



Fearghal McGarry



 



Case Study –
Veterans, Memorialisation and the Old IRA Movement in Post-Civil War Ireland



John Borgonovo



 



Night’s Candles
are Burnt Out, by Seán
Keating (1929)



Éimear O’Connor



 



Chapter 11



‘Befitting
Emblems of Adversity’: Temporality and disruption in Irish Civil War poetry



Ailbhe McDaid



 



The Poet in a
Time of Civil War Theo Dorgan



 



Chapter 12



The
Historiography of the Irish Civil War



Diarmaid
Ferriter



 



Dorothy
Macardle



Leeann Lane



 



Chapter 13



Historians and
the ‘Silence’ of the Irish Civil War: Some comparative perspectives



Síobhra Aiken



 



Seán O’Casey



Paul O’Brien



 



SECTION 10



Irish Civil War
Fatalities Index



Andy Bielenberg
and John Dorney



 



Notes



Index