Ireland: The Politics of Independence, 1922-49 - by M Cronin & J Regan (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

This volume sets out to examine the history of Ireland in the years following the Dail's ratification of independence from Britain in 1922. The different authors in the collection, all experts on different aspects of Irish history from the first half of the twentieth century, focus on a wide range of different themes. Considerations of the decline of Redmondite nationalism, the role of Unionism in the Free State, Party structures and organisation, the development of different forms of identity, the nature of economics and the place of the newly independent Ireland within the British Empire are all included. All chapters are either the result of new archival research or else offer a sustained historiographical critique of current thinking.

About the Author

MIKE CRONIN is Senior Research Fellow in History at De Montfort University, Leicester. He was the author of The Blueshirts and Irish Politics, Sport and Nationalism in Ireland: Gaelic Games, Soccer and Identity, and editor of The Failure of British Fascism: the Far Right and the Fight for Political Recognition.

JOHN M. REGAN is a Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. He was formerly the Irish Government Senior Scholar at Hertford College, Oxford and a holder of a British Academy post-doctoral research fellowship also at Wolfson College. His Counter-revolution and Settlement in Independent Ireland, 1921-36 is to be published in 1999.