Remembering the Revolution: Dissent, Culture, and Nationalism in the Irish Free State

Remembering the Revolution: Dissent, Culture, and Nationalism in the Irish Free State
ISBN-10
019873915X
ISBN-13
9780198739159
Category
History
Pages
249
Language
English
Published
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
Frances Flanagan

Description

Remembering the Revolution is a history of the ways the Irish revolution was remembered in the Irish Free State. It provides a lively portrait of four unusual nationalists: Eimar O'Duffy, P. S. O'Hegarty, George Russell, and Desmond Ryan, who changed their minds about the legitimacy of political violence. Instead of celebrating the heroism and holiness of Irish revolutionaries, they instead reflected critically about the damage that the revolution hadinflicted on the lives of civilians and the national cause. It provides new insights into the challenges nationalist writers faced in writing critically about their own movement in the shadow of a civil war, aswell as the significance of international debates and networks in shaping their arguments. It provides a new way of thinking about the origins and significance of the revisionist debate in Irish history.

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