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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index. |
| Summary |
The West must wait presents a new perspective on the development of the Irish Free State. Through a detailed examination of key local themes - land, poverty, politics, emigration, the status of the Irish language, the influence of radical republicans and the authority of the Catholic Church - it offers a probing analysis of the political and social realities of life in the new state. This book extends the regional historical debate beyond the Irish revolutionary period and raises a series of challenging questions about how we think about post-civil war society in Ireland. It opens up a new dimension by providing a rural contrast to the Dublin-centred views of Irish politics in the first decade of independence. Significantly, it reveals the level of deprivation in local Free State society with which the government had to confront (however inadequately) in the west of Ireland. Drawing on sophisticated rigorous research of a wide range of unexplored sources, Úna Newell studies in some detail the disconnect between the perceptions of what independence would deliver and what was actually achieved by the incumbent Cumann na nGaedheal administration. The book explores the expectations and frustrations of the local people and examines why Cumann na nGaedheal lost the popular vote in County Galway. It is a timely study of great originality which will be of central interest to all students, scholars and general readers who wish to deepen their understanding of the nature of politics and local life in post-revolutionary Ireland. --Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Reference map of County Galway; Prologue; Part I: Conflict; 1 The Anglo-Irish Treaty and the June pact election; The treaty; The pact election; Notes; 2 Civil war society and the August 1923 election; Civil war society; The Catholic hierarchy; The condition and morale of the IRA; August 1923; Notes; Part II: Society; 3 Land and reform; Land and the Irish revolution; Land agitation and the civil war; Agricultural policy; The promised land; Notes |
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4 Poverty and the Irish languageDistress in the west; The Gaeltacht Commission and the Irish language; Notes; 5 Crime, security and morality; Crime and security; Moral power; Anti-state activities; Notes; Part III: Politics; 6 Conservative revolutionaries: 1923-32; Party orientation; Class divisions; Cumann na nGaedheal tensions; The case of Labour; Notes; 7 Elections: 1927-32; June 1927; September 1927; February 1932; Notes; Epilogue; Notes; Appendix; Sources and bibliography; 1. Primary sources; 2. Secondary sources; Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ireland -- History -- 1922-
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Ireland. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1922- |
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Galway (Ireland : County) -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1900 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
County Galway and the Irish Free State, 1922-32 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Newell, Una. West must wait. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015 9780719089152 (DLC) 2015413357 (OCoLC)898153612 |
| ISBN |
9780719097973 (electronic book) |
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0719097975 (electronic book) |
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