The IRA and its enemies : violence and community in Cork, 1916-23 / Peter Hart.
By: Hart, Peter.
Material type: BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998Description: xv, 350 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0198205376.Subject(s): Irish Republican Army -- History | Community life -- Ireland -- Cork (County) -- History -- 20th century | Violence -- Ireland -- Cork (County) -- History -- 20th century | Ireland -- History -- Civil War, 1922-1923 | Ireland -- History -- Easter Rising, 1916 | Cork (Ireland) -- History | Ireland -- History -- 1910-1921DDC classification: 941.50822Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item | 941.50822 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00074442 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book explores the lives, deaths, enemies, and victims of the most powerful guerrillas of twentieth-century Ireland: those of the Cork I.R.A. between 1916 and 1923. Drawing on an unprecedented body of sources, including numerous interviews this is a uniquely intimate study of revolution, guerrilla war, and ethnic conflict.
Bibliography: p. 324-340. - Includes index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: The Killing of Sergeant O'Donoghue
- Part I Revolution, 1916-1923
- 2 The Kilmichael Ambush
- 3 Rebel Cork
- 4 Dying for Ireland
- 5 The Cork Republic
- Part II Rebels
- 6 The Boys of Kilmichael
- 7 Volunteers
- 8 Youth and Rebellion
- Part III The Path to Revolution
- 9 The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Party
- 10 Volunteering
- 11 Guerrillas
- Part IV Neighbours and Enemies
- 12 Taking it out on the Protestants
- 13 Spies and Informers
- Appendix: Sources and Definitions: I.R.A. Membership and Violence
- Bibliography
- Index