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Sets Irelands post-1916 history in its global and human context, to brilliant effect. Neil Hegarty, Irish Times Books of the Year 2015
The Irish Revolution has long been mythologized in American culture but seldom understood. Too often, the story of Irish independence and its grinding aftermath in the early part of the twentieth century has been told only within a parochial Anglo-Irish context. Now, in the critically acclaimed Bitter Freedom, Maurice Walsh, with a novelists eye for detailing lives in extremis (Feargal Keane, Prospect), places revolutionary Ireland within the panorama of nationalist movements born out of World War I.
Beginning with the Easter Rising of 1916, Bitter Freedom follows through from the War of Independence to the end of the post-partition civil war in 1924. Walsh renders a history of insurrection, treaty, partition, and civil war in a way that is both compelling and original. Breaking out this history from reductionist,...
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The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution
Bitter Freedom
Ireland in a Revolutionary
World
MAURICE WALSH
LIVERIGHT PUBLISHING CORPORATION
A Division of W. W. NORTON & COMPANY
Independent Publishers Since 1923
NEW YORK LONDON
Copyright 2015 by Maurice Walsh
Map copyright 2015 by Bill Donohue
First American Edition 2016
First published in Great Britain by Faber & Faber Ltd under the title
Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World 19181922
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Walsh, Maurice.
Title: Bitter freedom : Ireland in a revolutionary world / Maurice Walsh.
Description: First American edition. | New York : Liveright Publishing
Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. | First published
in Great Britain by Faber & Faber Ltd. under the title Bitter freedom :
Ireland in a revolutionary world, 19181922Title page verso. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016002970 | ISBN 9781631491955 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: IrelandHistoryWar of Independence, 19191921. |
IrelandHistoryWar of Independence, 19191921Social aspects. |
IrelandHistory19101921. | IrelandPolitics and
government19101921. | World War, 19141918Ireland. | World War,
19141918Political aspects. | World War, 19141918Influence. |
RevolutionsHistory20th century. | World politics19191932.
Classification: LCC DA962 .W322 2016 | DDC 941.5082/1dc23 LC record
available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016002970
ISBN 978-1-63149-196-2 (e-book)
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In memory of
Michael Walsh (18991974)
Contents
Hogan-Wilson Collection, National Library of Ireland
Hogan Collection, National Library of Ireland
Independent Newspapers Collection, National Library of Ireland
Hogan-Wilson Collection, National Library of Ireland
Imperial War Museum
Hogan-Wilson Collection, National Library of Ireland
Hogan-Wilson Collection, National Library of Ireland
Hogan-Wilson Collection, National Library of Ireland
Michael Hynes Collection, Bureau of Military History, Military Archives
Imperial War Museum
Hogan Collection, National Library of Ireland
Hogan-Wilson Collection, National Library of Ireland
Independent Newspapers Collection, National Library of Ireland
Hogan Collection, National Library of Ireland
Hogan Collection, National Library of Ireland
Hogan-Wilson Collection, National Library of Ireland
Hogan-Wilson Collection, National Library of Ireland
1918 | |
11 November | Armistice between Germany and the Allied powers ends First World War |
14 November | Tom Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia |
16 November | Hungary proclaims itself a republic |
14 December | UK general election voting: Lloyd Georges Liberal and Conservative coalition wins a huge majority; Sinn Fin wins 73 of Irelands 105 seats |
1919 | |
15 January | Spartacist uprising crushed in Berlin, Rosa Luxemburg shot |
18 January | Peace conference opens in Paris |
21 January | Irish parliament, Dil ireann, inaugurated in Dublin. Two policemen killed in an ambush by Irish Volunteers at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary |
5 February | Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists film studio |
8 March | Anti-British riots erupt in Cairo |
23 March | Mussolini launches Italian fascist movement |
1 April | Following his escape from Lincoln Prison in February, Eamon de Valera elected president of Dil ireann |
13 April | In India, 379 protesting civilians massacred by British troops at Amritsar |
1425 April | General strike in Limerick sees the formation of the Limerick soviet |
11 June | De Valera arrives in New York at the start of an eighteen-month tour of the United States |
23 June | Detective Inspector Hunt shot dead in Market Square, Thurles |
28 June | Treaty of Versailles signed |
31 July | Detective Patrick Smyth of G Division of the DMP shot dead by IRA Squad in Dublin |
12 September | Dil ireann declared illegal |
19 December | Viceroy Lord French survives assassination attempt in Dublin |
1920 | |
2 January | Ex-servicemen recruited to reinforce the Royal Irish Constabulary; they become known as the Black and Tans |
15 January | Sinn Fin scores big successes in local government elections |
1317 March | Attempted right-wing coup fails in Germany |
20 March | Lord Mayor of Cork, Toms Mac Curtain, shot dead at his home |
26 March | Retired magistrate investigating Dil finances, Alan Bell, shot dead in Dublin |
3 April | Hundreds of tax offices and abandoned police barracks burned by the IRA |
12 April | General strike in support of hunger strikers at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin |
19 July | Sectarian rioting begins in Derry; 19 killed over several days |
21 July | Expulsion of Catholics from Belfast shipyards sets off three days of violence |
25 July | French troops occupy Damascus to begin French mandate in Syria |
27 July | Auxiliary Divison of the RIC is launched, made up of ex-British Army officers |
6 August | Dil ireann declares boycott of goods from protestant firms in Belfast |
9 August | Restoration of Order in Ireland Act gives military sweeping powers including trial of civilians by court martial |
22 August | Assassination of Detective Inspector Swanzy in Lisburn sparks renewed violence in Belfast |
20 S eptember | Black and Tans ransack Balbriggan in County Dublin |
14 October | One of the Soloheadbeg ambushers, Sean Treacy, shot dead in a street battle with Auxiliaries and British intelligence agents in Dublin |
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