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Atlas of the Irish Revolution / editors: John Crowley, Donal Ó Drisceoil, and Mike Murphy ; associate editor: John Borgonovo ; graphics editor: Nick Hogan ; associate cartographer/researcher: Charles Roche ; researcher: Héléne O'Keeffe

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Togher, Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2017Description: xx, 963 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 31 cm. ; casedISBN:
  • 9781782051176 (hbk.)
  • 1782051171 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Other classification:
  • 941.50821
Contents:
Before the revolution -- Crisis -- The First World War and the Easter Rising -- The rising tide -- War of Independence: military dimensions -- War of Independence: political, social, and international perspectives -- War of Independence: regional perspectives -- Treaty and civil war -- After the revolution: impacts, outcomes and legacies -- Memory and culture.
Summary: The Atlas of the Irish Revolution is a landmark publication that will appeal to a broad readership. It features over 300 original maps, several hundred illustrations, and more than 140 contributions from leading scholars across a range of disciplines. As well as covering a myriad of military, political, socio-economic, and cultural phenomena in the pivotal years from the Home Rule Crisis of 1912 to the end of the Civil War in 1923, the Atlas also addresses underlying trends in the decades before the revolution, born amidst the carnage of the First World War. The oft-neglected roles of women, workers, Irish people in British uniform, and those who resisted the drive towards independence are all given due attention in a book that, together with the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine (2012), represents a groundbreaking contribution to the histoical geography of modern Ireland. -- from dust jacket
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General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 941.50821 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 83625

47.20

Includes bibliographical references (pages 924-945) and index.

Before the revolution -- Crisis -- The First World War and the Easter Rising -- The rising tide -- War of Independence: military dimensions -- War of Independence: political, social, and international perspectives -- War of Independence: regional perspectives -- Treaty and civil war -- After the revolution: impacts, outcomes and legacies -- Memory and culture.

The Atlas of the Irish Revolution is a landmark publication that will appeal to a broad readership. It features over 300 original maps, several hundred illustrations, and more than 140 contributions from leading scholars across a range of disciplines. As well as covering a myriad of military, political, socio-economic, and cultural phenomena in the pivotal years from the Home Rule Crisis of 1912 to the end of the Civil War in 1923, the Atlas also addresses underlying trends in the decades before the revolution, born amidst the carnage of the First World War. The oft-neglected roles of women, workers, Irish people in British uniform, and those who resisted the drive towards independence are all given due attention in a book that, together with the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine (2012), represents a groundbreaking contribution to the histoical geography of modern Ireland. -- from dust jacket

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