Week 7

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Topics

Easter 1916 and its aftermath
War and Peace

Tutorial Focus Question

'The Easter Rising of April 1916 was indeed reckless, bloody, sacrificial and unsuccessful'. Discuss.

Essential Reading

• Fitzpatrick, David, 'Militarism in Ireland, 1900-1922', in Thomas Bartlett and Keith Jeffery (eds.), A Military History of Ireland (Cambridge, 1996), pp.379-406.

Recommended Readings

• Coogan, Tim Pat, 1916: the Easter rising (London, 1001) [short loan].
• Curtis, L. P. 'Ireland in 1914', in William E. Vaughan (ed.), A New History of Ireland Volume VI: Ireland Under the Union II, 1870-1921(Oxford, 1996), 145-88. [short loan].
• Denman, Terence, A lonely grave: the life and death of William Redmond (Dublin, 1995) [short loan].
• Edwards, Ruth D. Patrick Pearse: the triumph of failure (New York, 1978) [short loan].
• Fitzpatrick, David, The two Irelands, 1912-1939 (Oxford, 1998) [short loan].
• ---. Politics and Irish life 1913-1921: provincial experience of war and revolution (Dublin, 1977) [short loan].
• Henderson, Frank, Frank Henderson's Easter rising: recollections of a Dublin volunteer ed. Michael Hopkinson (Cork, 1998) [short loan].
• Jackson, Alvin, Ireland 1798-1998 (Oxford, 1999) [short loan].
• Jeffery, Keith, Ireland and the Great War (Cambridge, 2000) [short loan].
• Lee, J. J. Ireland 1912-1985, Politics and Society (Cambridge, 1989) [short loan].
• Norway, Hamilton, Mrs, The Sinn Fein Rebellion as they saw it / Mary Louisa and Arthur Hamilton Norway; ed. Keith Jeffery (Dublin, 1999).
• O'Day, Alan, Irish Home Rule, 1867-1921 (Manchester, 1998) [short loan].
• Ó Tuathaigh, G. 'Nationalist Ireland 1912-1922: Aspects of Continuity and Change', in Peter Collins, (ed.), Nationalism and Unionism: Conflict in Ireland, 1885-1921 (Belfast, 1994), pp.47-73 [short loan].
• Ward, Alan J. The Easter Rising: revolution and Irish nationalism (Arlington Hts, Ill, 1980) [short loan].

Lecture Outlines


Easter 1916 and its aftermath

1. Background to the Rising
2. Easter 1916
3. The Aftermath

Ruth Dudley Edwards, Patrick Pearse: the triumph of failure (London, 1977)
Seán Moran, Patrick Pearse and the Politics of Redemption (Washington, 1994)
George Boyce, '1916: Interpreting the Rising', in Boyce and O'Day (eds) Making of Modern Irish History
Patrick Pearse, Joseph Mary Plunkett, Eamon Ceant and Thomas MacDonagh
Eric Erikson's Young Man Luther (1958).
Clan na Gael
John Devoy
Daniel Cohalan
Sir Roger Casement
Aud
Irish Chief Secretary Augustine Birrell
Sir John Maxwell
Kilmainham Gaol

War and Peace

1. Post-1916 Strategies
2. Rise of Sinn Féin
3. The War of Independence

Thomas Hennessy, Dividing Ireland: World War I and partition (London, 1998)
R. B. McDowell, The Irish Convention (London, 1970)
David Fitzpatrick, Politics and Irish life, 1913-1921 (Cork, 1998)
Arthur Griffith
Sinn Féin
Khaki Election, 1918
David Lloyd George
Eamon de Valera
Michael Collins
Cathal Brugha
Woodrow Wilson
Versailles Peace Conference
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Black and Tans
Dáil Éirann Government of Ireland Act (1920)
Terence McSwiney