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Between Two Hells

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In June 1922, just seven months after Sinn Féin negotiators signed a compromise treaty with representatives of the British government to create the Irish Free State, Ireland collapsed into civil wa...
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In June 1922, just seven months after Sinn Féin negotiators signed a compromise treaty with representatives of the British government to create the Irish Free State, Ireland collapsed into civil war. While the body count suggests it was far less devastating than other European civil wars, it had a harrowing impact on the country and cast a long shadow, socially, economically and politically, which included both public rows and recriminations and deep, often private traumas. Drawing on many previously unpublished sources and newly released archival material, one of Ireland's most renowned historians lays bare the course and impact of the war and how this tragedy shaped modern Ireland.
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Price: $16.95
Pages: 336
Publisher: IPS - Profile Books
Imprint: IPS - Profile Books
Publication Date: 02 May 2023
Trim Size: 7.79 X 5.07 in
ISBN: 9781788161756
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, RELIGION / History
'Ferriter has richly earned his reputation as one of Ireland's leading historians' Irish Independent
Diarmaid Ferriter is Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin. He is a columnist for the Irish Times and he was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2019. His previous books include The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000, Occasions of Sin, Ambiguous Republic, On The Edge and the international bestseller The Border.

Introduction: Faith, Reason and Betrayal 


Part One: The Course and Nature of the War 


1 ‘No one has ever defined a Republic’ 

2 The Ulster Rock

3 ‘Only putting off the evil way’

4 The Call to Arms 

5 Lost Leaders 

6 Raw Lads and the New Black and Tans 

7 Escape Tunnels and Shit Buckets 

8 God’s Law and Joans of Arc 

9 Public Safety 

10 The Peasant Mind 

11 Giving It to the Bastards 

12 The Mind’s Exhilaration

13 Fizzling Out 


Part Two: Afterlife and Legacy 


14 Potatoes, Water and Pensions 

15 The Price of a Lost Life 

16 Insulting the Dead 

17 Broken Lives 

18 The Uncertainty of a Soldier’s Life 

19 Ideal Specimens of Womanhood 

20 Two Teeth 

21 Poachers Turned Gamekeepers 

22 Virtue and Erin, Saxon and Guilt 

23 Sidestepping Differences 

24 Codology 

25 Blind Loyalty Eroded

26 N ot Caring Who Did What 


Notes 

Bibliography 

Acknowledgements 

Index