Bitter freedom : Ireland in a revolutionary world

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Label

Bitter freedom : Ireland in a revolutionary world

Title remainder

Ireland in a revolutionary world

Statement of responsibility

Maurice Walsh

Creator

• Walsh, Maurice

Author

• Walsh, Maurice

Subject

• Ireland -- History -- War of Independence, 1919-1921 -- Social aspects
• Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1910-1921
• Revolutions -- History -- 20th century
• Ireland -- History -- 1910-1921
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Ireland
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Political aspects
• World politics -- 1919-1932
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence
• Ireland -- History -- War of Independence, 1919-1921

Language

eng

Summary

"In the tradition of Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 comes this groundbreaking history of the Irish Revolution. The Irish Revolution has long been mythologized in American culture, but seldom understood. For too long, the story of Irish independence and its aftermath has been told only within an Anglo-Irish context. Now, in the critically acclaimed Bitter Freedom, journalist Maurice Walsh, with 'a novelist's eye for the illuminating detail of everyday lives in extremis' (Prospect) places revolutionary Ireland in the panorama of the global disorder born of the terrible slaughter of World War I, as well as providing a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human face of the conflict. In this 'invigorating account' (Spectator), Walsh demonstrates how this national revolution, which captured worldwide attention from India to Argentina, was itself shaped by international events, political, economic, and cultural. In the era of Russian Bolshevism and American jazz, developments in Europe and America had a profound effect on Ireland. Bitter Freedom is 'the most vivid and dramatic account of this epoch to date' (Literary Review)"--Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

941.5082/1

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

DA962

LC item number

.W322 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography