Mo Moulton

Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This social history argues that the relocation of Irishness from politics to personal and civic life underpinned England's interwar stability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 713g
• ISBN-13: 9781107052680
• ISBN-10: 1107052688
• Artikelnr.: 40721921

Autorenporträt

Mo Moulton is a lecturer in history and literature at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the return of the repressed island
Part I. The Anglo-Irish War: 1. The dirtiness of this 'trouble': fighting the Anglo-Irish War
2. The postwar international order and the mobilization of public opinion
3. A different home front: Irish nationalists in England
4. 'Strangers in blood' at a funeral: the Treaty of 1921 and the Irish Civil War
Part II. Irishness in Interwar England: 5. Politics and the Anglo-Irish relationship
6. The cultural persistence of Irishness
7. A decaying world in exile: the Anglo-Irish and other loyalists
8. The Irish in England and the failure of ethnic politics
9. Immigration and accommodation in Irish England
10. The end of an era: 1939 and the salience of Irishness
Conclusion: the first decolonization?
Bibliography.