Jason Knirck's Afterimage of the Revolution: Cumann na nGaedheal and Irish PDF

By Jason Knirck

ISBN-10: 0299295842

ISBN-13: 9780299295844

Ascending to strength after the Anglo-Irish Treaty and a violent revolution opposed to the uk, the political celebration Cumann na nGaedheal ruled in the course of the first ten years of the Irish unfastened kingdom (1922–32). taking on from the fallen Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith, Cumann na nGaedheal leaders equivalent to W. T. Cosgrave and Kevin O'Higgins gained a bloody civil warfare, created the associations of the recent loose country, and tried to venture in a foreign country the independence of a brand new Ireland.

            in line with the view that Cumann na nGaedheal used to be really a reactionary counterrevolutionary celebration, Afterimage of the Revolution contends that, in construction the recent Irish country, the govt framed and promoted its guidelines by way of principles inherited from the revolution. specifically, Cumann na nGaedheal emphasised Irish sovereignty, the "Irishness" of the hot kingdom, and a powerful feel of anticolonialism, all key elements of the Sinn Féin occasion platform in the course of the revolution. Jason Knirck argues that the Nineteen Twenties has to be understood as a part of a continuous Irish revolution that ended in an eventual self reliant republic. Drawing on kingdom records, newspapers, and personal papers—including the lately published papers of Kevin O'Higgins—he bargains a clean view of Irish politics within the Twenties and integrates this era extra heavily with the Irish Revolution.

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