Research Catalog

Title

The dynamics of war and revolution : Cork City, 1916-1918 / John Borgonovo.

Author

Borgonovo, John.

Publication

Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2013

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Details

Description

xvi, 327 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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.

Subjects

• Violence
• Ireland
• Cork (Ireland) > History
• Ireland > History > Easter Rising, 1916
• Irish Republican Army
• History
• Irish Republican Army History
• Easter Rising (Ireland : 1916)
• Ireland > Cork
• Violence > Ireland > Cork > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Includes bibliographic references (pages 235-315) and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 14-1493

ISBN

• 1909005827
• 9781909005822 (hbk.)

OCLC

826997327

Author

Borgonovo, John.

Title

The dynamics of war and revolution : Cork City, 1916-1918 / John Borgonovo.

Publisher

Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2013

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JFE 14-1493