Radicals and the Republic: Socialist Republicanism in the Irish Free State, 1925-1937

by Richard English

Overview

In this comprehensive study of socialist republicanism in interwar Ireland, the author demonstrates that the contradictory analysis that characterized the republican left explains its political failure. This important book unravels the politics of a significant Irish republican cult and illuminates important issues of class and politics, changing and enriching our reading of the history of independent Ireland.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198202899
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/26/1995
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 8.75(h) x 1.03(d)

About the Author

Queen's University, Belfast

Editorial Reviews

"English does a good job of showing how and why the left failed in Ireland during the interwar period....Based on an impressive range of archival and other material, including a large number of interviews with contemporaries."—CHOICE

"...A scholarly, balanced, and lively account of the efforts of a group in the outlawed Irish Republican Army...brimming with interesting detail and providing excellent references and bibliography."—American Historical Review

"English's book, brimming with interesting detail and providing excellent references and bibliography, is a study of a side show in the Irish political spectrum of the interwar period. It is a definitive history of that endeavor."—Modern Europe

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