Remembrance of the Great War in the Irish Free State, 1914-1937 Specters of Empire /

• Main Author: Link, Mandy (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; Historiography.; Imperialism.; Civilization-History.; Military history.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Memory Studies.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Cultural History.; History of Military.

This book focuses on how Irish remembrance of the First World War impacted the emerging Irish identity in the postcolonial Irish Free State. While all combatants of the "war to end all wars" commemorated the war, Irish memorial efforts were fraught with debate over Irish identity and polit...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 'The Flooding Sorrow': The Great War, 1914-1918
• 3 No Man's Land Endures: The Anglo-Irish War, 1919-1921
• 4 'Suffering does not stop when the shooting does': The Irish Civil War, 1922-1923
• 5 'The emblem of sleep for the dead - and "dope" for the living': Armistice Day, the Flanders Poppy and the National War Memorial, 1924-1932
• 6 Conclusion: Peace in the Free State? 1932-1937
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