Arming the Irish Revolution is an in-depth investigation of the successes and failures of the militant Irish republican
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In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Anglo-Irish War, Peter Cottrell explores the Irish Civil War, a devastating confl
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The Anglo-Irish War has often been referred to as the war ‘the English have struggled to forget and the Irish cannot hel
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“At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman arms industry was self-sufficient. But from the 1880s to World
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The narrative of the Irish revolution as a chronology of great men and male militarism, with women presumed to have eith
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Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders hav
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The period 1913–22 witnessed extraordinary upheaval in Irish society. The Easter Rising of 1916 facilitated the emergenc
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Ascending to power after the Anglo-Irish Treaty and a violent revolution against the United Kingdom, the political party
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In 1912, Derry was a busy port city with a thriving textile industry. An important transport hub, it was also a city div
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A provocative history of Ulysses and the Easter Rising as harbingers of decolonization. When revolutionaries seized Dubl
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