Ascending to power after the Anglo-Irish Treaty and a violent revolution against the United Kingdom, the political party Cumann na nGaedheal governed during the first ten years of the Irish Free State (1922–32). Taking over from the fallen Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith, Cumann na nGaedheal leaders such as W. T. Cosgrave and Kevin O'Higgins won a bloody civil war, created the institutions of the new Free State, and attempted to project abroad the independence of a new Ireland. In response to the view that Cumann na nGaedheal was actually a reactionary counterrevolutionary party, Afterimage of the Revolution contends that, in building the new Irish state, the government framed and promoted its policies in terms of ideas inherited from the revolution. In particular, Cumann na nGaedheal emphasized Irish sovereignty, the "Irishness" of the new state, and a strong sense of anticolonialism, all key components of the Sinn Féin party platform during the revolution. Jason Knirck argues that the 1920s must be understood as part of a continuing Irish revolution that led to an eventual independent republic. Drawing on state documents, newspapers, and private papers—including the recently released papers of Kevin O'Higgins—he offers a fresh view of Irish politics in the 1920s and integrates this period more closely with the Irish Revolution.

Afterimage of the Revolution: Cumann na nGaedheal and Irish Politics, 1922–1932 (History of Ireland & the Irish Diaspora)

History

Knirck, Jason

Americas

University of Wisconsin Press

Women of the DÃ?Â?Ã?Â¡il explores the role of political women during the Irish revolution, specifically those who were DÃ?Â?Ã?Â¡il deputies and related to recently-deceased patriots. These women successfully used familial links to bolster their political credibility during the years after the Easter Rising, but found this rhetorical strategy much more difficult to deploy in the wake of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Drawing on a number of published and unpublished sources, Women of the DÃ?Â?Ã?Â¡il analyzes this rhetorical shift in order to explain the interplay between gender, republicanism and the Irish revolution.

Women of the Dail

Europe

Irish Academic Press

Women of the DÃ?Â?Ã?Â¡il explores the role of political women during the Irish revolution, specifically those who were DÃ?Â?Ã?Â¡il deputies and related to recently-deceased patriots. These women successfully used familial links to bolster their political credibility during the years after the Easter Rising, but found this rhetorical strategy much more difficult to deploy in the wake of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Drawing on a number of published and unpublished sources, Women of the DÃ?Â?Ã?Â¡il analyzes this rhetorical shift in order to explain the interplay between gender, republicanism and the Irish revolution.

Luddy, Maria

Democracy and dissent in the Irish Free State: Opposition, decolonisation, and majority rights

Manchester University Press

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