Annotated Bibliography
Bennett, Richard. The Black and Tans. London: E. Hulton, 1959. Print.
Unlike the other documents listed, the book has a lot of information on one of the worst aspects of the Irish War of Independence, the British military outfit known commonly as the Black and Tans. The author does a commendable job of providing a mostly unbiased view of the conflict, but is still a partial to the British perhaps due to the fact he served in the British military. Additionally, although the book it titled The Black and Tans, it actually focuses more on the IRA.
Bowden, Tom. "The Irish Underground and the War of Independence 1919-21." Journal of Contemporary History 8.2 (1973): 3-23. Print.
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is the military of the Irish revolutionary government, known as both the Irish volunteers and the IRA. Not only does this article look at the IRA, but also the British police force stationed in Ireland during the war and its subsequent breakdown. One of the most interesting aspects of the article is the history of the organizations of the IRB and IRA and the underground movements that originally created them. Unlike the other sources, this article goes into detail about the actual structure of the IRA and the revolutionary government as a whole. Cottrell, Peter. The War for Ireland: 1913 - 1923. Oxford: Osprey, 2009. Print. Unlike my other sources this book is a both meant to entertain and to present everything in a historically accurate fashion. While not as dense as my other sources, the book is a lot easier to gain information from in a timely manner. This book acts as an overview of the events that sparked the eventual Irish War of Independence and the events that happen immediately after. This book also dives into the differences in various factions of the Irish freedom fighters and what would ultimately lead to the Irish Civil War. "Declaration of Independence." Documents on Irish Foreign Policy. Royal Irish Academy, 1919. Web. 20 Sept. 2015. This is the official Irish declaration of independence signed on January 21, 1919 in Dublin.
This is the official document that declared Irish independence from Britain and reasserted the legitimacy claims of the Irish Republic. It also fleshes out the reasons for secession and the reasoning behind it. The document also declares all English forces stationed in Ireland to be an invading force and that the Irish demand they leave the country. This is probably the single most important document of the Irish War of Independence, as the signing of this document is considered the official start date of the war.
Jacob, Rosamond. "Excerpts from the Diaries of Rosamond Jacob." Euro Docs. Brigham Young University, 22 June 2015. Web. 20 Sept. 2015.
These are excerps from the personal diary of Rosamond Jacob, who was an Irish born writer and activist. Her diary contains her first person accounts of events in Ireland both before and after the Irish War of independence, as well as many of the events she heard about. She was an active member of the pro-independence Sinn Fein party in Ireland. Her diary provides unique insight from a women who not only experienced the War of Independence firsthand, but was also an accomplished writer.
Newsinger, John. "I Bring Not Peace But A Sword." Journal of Contemporary History (1978): 609-28.
Print. This article gives a deeper background on Irish’s Catholic beliefs and how devoted they were to the Catholic Church. The journal article also delves into the religious convictions of the leaders and soldiers of the IRA during the Irish War of Independence, which gives a lot of insight into their overall motivation for the war. Additionally, this article goes into particulars about the motivations and faith behind a few of the leaders of the Irish during the war. The journal article also gives specific events that were important in the overall Irish War of independence, such as hunger strikes and trials. Patterson, Iain. "The Activities of Irish Republican Physical Force Organisations in Scotland, 1919-21." The Scottish Historical Review 72.193 (1993): 39-59. Print. The purpose of this article is to analyze the impact of foreign support, particularly in Scotland, that the IRA had during the Irish War of Independence. As this article is published in a reputable journal for Scottish history and is printed by the Edinburg University Press, it is a reputable source. The article’s intended audience is other historians and history students. This work will be used to show the international support the IRA received and in what form it received it in. The journal article even has precise data on the amount of weapons and detonators that were shipped from Scotland to Ireland. It also talks about the monetary support given to the IRA by both Scottish and American sympathizers.
Included within the anthology The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction,1[1] are the works of great Irish authors written from around three hundred years ago, until as recently as the last decade. Since one might expect to find in an anthology such as this only expressions and interpretations of Irish or European places, events or peoples, some included material could be quite surprising in its contrasting content. One such inclusion comes from the novel Black Robe,2[2] by Irish-born author Brian Moore. Leaving Ireland as a young man afforded Moore a chance to see a great deal of the world and in reflection afforded him a great diversity of setting and theme in his writings. And while his Black Robe may express little of Ireland itself, it expresses much of Moore in his exploration into evolving concepts of morality, faith, righteousness and the ever-changing human heart.
Meagher, Timothy. “The Columbia Guide to Irish American History.” Columbia University Press- New York, 2005
Holsti, K. J. Peace and War: Armed Conflicts and International Order, 1648-1989. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991. Print.
War and peace exist in more ways than large military conflicts, occurring between ideas and between people. Themes often explored in literature, war and peace, can be represented simply as personal conflicts, such as those between close friends. John Knowles’ A Separate Peace deals with the issue of war and peace by showing Peace, personified by Phineas, to be happy, naïve and confident, and War, personified by Gene, to be tortured, malicious and insecure, and that resolution to the conflict between them comes only from an understanding of the world around them.
In this book, Bauerlein argues that technology as a whole has had the opposite of its intended effect on American youth. According to his argument, young adults in the United States are now entirely focused on relational interactions and, in his view, pointless discussions concerning purely social matters, and have entirely neglected intellectual pursuits that technology should be making much simpler. He calls on various forms of data in order to prove that the decline is very significant and quite real. This book is meant to be a thorough and compelling study on the reality of what technology has caused in the U.S.
Irish nationalists planned to take Dublin and all of Ireland by force and rid themselves of the British. On the morning of Monday April 24, 1916, the day after Easter, a force between 1,000 and 1,500 men and women began a rebellion that they hope...
Keogh, Dermot and McCarthy, Andrew J, The Making of the Irish Constitution 1937: Bunreacht na hÉireann (Cork 2007)
In this article, the editors discussed the social trends and how they can change in nature of father involvement. They tested how children today will make their expectations taking upon a role of mother and father. Increase in father absence is associated with poor school achievement, reduced involvement in labor force, early childbearing, and high risk-taking behaviors. In addition, boys without fathers will experience problems with their sexual orientation and gender identity, school performance, psychosocial adjustment, and self-control. The editors differentiated the girls by how affected they were without fathers.
O'Connor, Thomas H. The Boston Irish: A Political History. Boston, MA. Northeastern University Press, 1995.
Trapp, James. The art of war: a new translation. New York: Chartwell Books, 2012. Print.
Carl von Clausewitz, “What is War?” On War. Edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret, 89-112. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976.
Historical Background: This book was published in Europe during World War I. This time period can be categorized as the beginning to the modern era. The story of this novel takes place in Ireland, where there was political and religious conflict during this time period.
The modern political history of Ireland can be separated into two time periods. The first period is it’s time spent under British rule as only one territory of the United Kingdom. The second period, which represents the beginning of the modern Irish state, took place during the early twentieth century. The road to national sovereignty was neither easy nor short as Britain was far from eager to let its dependent state go. The first organized movement towards independence occurred in 1916 when revolutionaries declared Ireland to be free from British rule on Easter of that year. Despite the ultimate failure of this initial push towards freedom Britain eventually granted the southern 26, of 38, counties dominion status in 1921. Further steps were taken in 1937 when Ireland drafted its constitution and was granted full sovereignty. The final phase in southern Ireland’s independence came in 1949 when its status as a British commonwealth ended and the nation was declared a republic. However, even after disassociating itself from the United Kingdom the southern counties of Ireland wouldn’t be completely satisfied as long as the remaining 6 counties that comprised Northern Ireland were still a part of Britain’s empire. The predominantly protestant northern counties of Ireland have been a barrier to peace in the region from the first days of the Republic up to today. These counties are considered as a separate state but can also be considered as the same nation. This topic will be explored in more depth after the explanations of both the current Irish state as well as what can be considered the Irish nation.
...nguage and art to interpret a better of understanding of Ireland’s symbols. The fourth section of the essay focused on the ethnicity/racial, weather, terrain, and military elements of the country. The last section gave insight to a few of the culture’s contributions to the world.
McCabe, Conor, ‘Your only God is profit’: Irish class relations and the 1913 Lockout ’ in David Convery (ed) Locked Out: A Century of Irish Working-Class Life (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2013).