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A Nation and not a Rabble
Diarmaid Ferriter
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
Packed with violence, political drama and social and cultural upheaval, the years 1913-1923 saw the emergence in Ireland of the Ulster Volunteer Force to resist Irish home rule and in response, the Irish Volunteers, who would later evolve into the IRA. World War One, the rise of Sinn Féin, intense Ulster unionism and conflict with Britain culminated in the Irish war of Independence, which ended with a compromise Treaty with Britain and then the enmities and drama of the Irish Civil War.
Drawing on an abundance of newly released archival material, witness statements and testimony from the ordinary Irish people who lived and fought through extraordinary times, A Nation and not a Rabble explores these revolutions. Diarmaid Ferriter highlights the gulf between rhetoric and reality in politics and violence, the role of women, the battle for material survival, the impact of key Irish unionist and republican leaders, as well as conflicts over health, land, religion, law and order, and welfare.
Rezensionen
The uses and abuses of national memory and the compromising of revolutionary ideals form the spine of this excellent history of the Irish revolution...Ferriter is the outstanding young Irish historian of our time: robust, intellectually sophisticated and a master of the sources
What is most impressive is what it shows of the author'
This outstanding, carefully researched study by Ferriter, professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin, sets the bar high for good writing and scholarship.
...The mighty mind this book comes from... rightly renowned for his voracious learning
Ferriter has been to the forefront of scholarship of this particular period of our history and has brought vigour, detail and honesty to the often vexatious debate around events of this time...this engrossing and highly stimulating book offers a perfect companion to the debate
Ferriter is interested above all in the sources, what is preserved and what is forgotten, and the oblique shafts of light which they cast on a disputed history...fascinating
Tugs at the tapestry of myths surrounding the independence struggle and the civil war that followed
an honest perspective and a valuable handbook for both the historian and the general reader
Ferriter'
This outstanding, carefully researched study by Ferriter sets the bar high for good writing and scholarship
Ferriter'
Very illuminating detail...simply setting violent events in context is a step forward. Thoughtful, balanced, even handed
Powerfully shows how the mythology has taken shape...explores the grass-roots experience of Ireland'
Kundenbewertungen
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