The dynamics of war and revolution Cork City, 1916 - 1918
"The city of Cork experienced a political odyssey between Easter 1916 and the end of 1918. Irish Republicans evolved from a marginalized minority into Cork's unquestioned political masters. The First World War created the context for this political transformation in Ireland's third-la...
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Cork, Ireland
Cork Univ. Press
2013
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "The city of Cork experienced a political odyssey between Easter 1916 and the end of 1918. Irish Republicans evolved from a marginalized minority into Cork's unquestioned political masters. The First World War created the context for this political transformation in Ireland's third-largest city. Wartime policies conceived in London manifested themselves unexpectedly in Cork: the Defence of the Realm Act was used to repress political speech; deficit spending generated massive inflation; mandatory arbitration encouraged workers to join trade unions; food rationing panicked a country scarred by the Potato Famine; and military conscription generated virtual rebellion. As a result, the Cork public increasingly turned against the war. The book examines the political situation in Cork prior to the Easter Rising; local reactions to the rebellion; the rapid creation of the Republican mass movement; the dramatic decline of the Irish Party; the explosion of anti-authority street rioting; the mobilisation of women in the independence struggle; disturbances against venereal disease treatments and visiting American sailors; the emergence of radical trade unionism; agitation over the retention of local food supplies; the nationalist mobilisation during the Conscription Crisis; and Sinn Féin's triumph in the 1918 General Election. While previous scholarship has analysed these themes in isolation, this study synthesises different strands into a single compelling narrative that explains the war's destabilising effects on one Irish city during 1916-1918"--Publisher's website Cork political life prior to Easter 1916 -- Cork and the First World War, 1914 to Easter 1916 -- The Rising and after -- 'Thoughtless young people' and the Cork city riots of 1917 -- The Republican front: Sinn Fein, the IRB, the Irish Volunteers in 1917 -- Twilight of the Mollies: the decline of the Irish part in 1917 -- Cork women, American sailors and Catholic vigilantes, 1917-18 -- Gender, nationalism and Cumann na mBan, 1916-1918 -- Cork labour, economy and the ITGWU -- Preventing another black '47: the Cork people's Food Committee, 1917-18 -- Insurrection: the 1918 conscription crisis -- The victory of Sinn Fein: the 1918 General Election |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographic references (S. 235 - 315) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XVI, 327 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 1909005827 1-909005-82-7 9781909005822 978-1-909005-82-2 |