ABSTRACT

This timely introduction presents a clear, balanced account of the rapid and complex events from 1880 leading up to the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

The nineteenth-century context, 1800–1880

chapter Chapter One|16 pages

Culture, land and politics, 1880–1900

chapter Chapter Two|17 pages

Consolidation and advance, 1900–1914

chapter Chapter Three|15 pages

The Rising and its aftermath, 1916–1918

chapter Chapter Six|15 pages

The Civil War, January 1922 to May 1923