From the Treaty to the Present

by Fleming, N. C.; O'Day, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780754627814
• ISBN10: 0754627810
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-17
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

This landmark series of three volumes brings together selected essays from leading and specialist journals that have made a significant or original contribution to Irish historiography. Each volume contains a range of articles reappraising the major polit

Table of Contents

Introduction

Partition, the Treaty and Civil War

The Irish Free State passport and the question of citizenship, 1921-4

The Irish civil war, 1922-1923: an anti-Treaty perspective

The Catholic Church and partition, 1918-22

Establishing Irish Free State, 1922-1932

The politics of reaction: the dynamics of Treatyite government and policy,1922-33

The Irish Free State and the League of Nations, 1922-32: the wider implications

The construction and destruction of a colonial landscape: monuments to British monarchs in Dublin before and after independence

The Age of Eamon De Valera, 1932-1948

Final exit? Britain, Éire, the Commonwealth and the repeal of the External Relations Act, 1945-1949

'Putting new wine into old bottles': the Irish Right and the embrace of European social thinking in the early 1930s

'Burn everything British but their coal': the Anglo-Irish economic war of the 1930s

Dublin slums in the 1930s

The Blueshirts and the 'economic war': a study of Ireland in the context of dependency theory

Pariah dogs: deserters from the Irish defence forces who joined the British armed forces during 'the emergency'

Catholic action and the development of the Irish welfare state in the 1930s and1940s

Northern Ireland, 1920-1968: 'Protestantism before Party!': the Ulster Protestant League in the 1930s

Creating jobs, manufacturing unity

Ulster Unionism and mass unemployment, 1922-34

Lord Londonderry and education reform in 1920s Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland and British Fascism in the inter-war years

'Cultivating their own garden': broadcasting and culture in Northern Ireland in the 1930s and 1940s

Belfast republicanism in the 30s: the oral evidence

Ireland Since 1949

Ireland and the Marshall plan

Gender and voter appeal in Irish elections, 1948-1997

Changes in population and in the extent of the built up area of the Dublin City-region, 1936-1988

Northern Ireland Since 1968

Acts of union: youth, sub-culture and ethnic identity amongst Protestants in Northern Ireland

Northern Irish nationalist political culture

'This is not a rebel song': the Irish conflict and popular music

From Sunningdale to the Good Friday Agreement: creating devolved government in Northern Ireland

Women

Surveying politics of peace, gender, conflict and identity in Northern Ireland: the case of the Derry Peace Women in 1972

The hidden history of the PFIs: the repatriation of unmarried mothers and their children from England to Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s

Women and the Irish Free State, 1922-1939: the interaction between economics and ideology

Name index

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