The Irish Revolution: A Global History (The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series, 3)

The Irish War of Independence is often understood as the culmination of centuries of political unrest between Ireland and the English. However, the conflict also has a vitally important yet vastly understudied international dimension. The Irish Revolution: A Global History reassesses the conflict as an inherently transnational event, examining how circumstances and individuals abroad shaped the course Ireland’s struggle for independence.Bringing together leading international scholars of modern Ireland, its diaspora, and the British Empire, this volume discusses the Irish revolution in a truly global sense. The text situates the conflict in the wider context of the international flourishing of anti-colonial movements following World War I. Despite the differences between these movements, their proponents communicated extensively with each other, learning from and engaging with other revolutionaries in anti-imperial metropoles such as Paris, London, and New York. The contributors to this volume argue that Irish nationalists at home and abroad were intimately involved in this exchange, from mobilizing Ireland’s vast diaspora in support of Irish independence to engaging directly with radical causes elsewhere. The Irish Revolution is a vital work for all those interested in Irish history, providing a new understanding of Ireland’s place in the evolving postwar world.Harry Boland’s grandiose plans for a global revolutionary movement were not achieved, but the efforts of Irish republicans to internationalize their struggle met with considerable success, as Francis Hackett’s testimony indicates, tilting the scales of an otherwise one- sided fight. How important were international factors in shaping the revolution that took place in Ireland between 1916 and 1923? What impact did the conflict have beyond Irish shores? What role did Ireland’s global diaspora play in determining its outcome? Why did the War of Independence attract the attention of radicals, journalists,... Contents Introduction • Patrick Mannion and Fearghal McGarry Part One: Revolutionary Worlds 1. Beyond “Slavish” Imitation: The Politics of Cultural Authenticity and the Global Struggle Against Empire • Martyn Frampton 2. “The Ireland of the Far East?” The Wilsonian Moment in Korea and Ireland • Fearghal McGarry 3. “Playing at International Politics?” Irish Nationalist Responses to the Russian Revolution, 1917–1921 • Anna Lively 4. “The Example of Valiant Little Ireland”: The Irish Revolution in Algerian Nationalist Thought • Dónal Hassett Part Two: Diaspora 5. Inventing Global Ireland: The Idea, and Influence, of the Irish Race Convention • Darragh Gannon 6. “A Most Obnoxious Campaign Against Everything British”: The Curious Case of the Friends of Irish Freedom in the Panama Canal Zone, 1918–1921 • Patrick Mannion 7. The Generation that Lost: The Ulster Bank, Ardara, County Donegal, 16 June 1921, and Long After, and Far Away • Breandán Mac Suibhne Part Three: Imperial Perspectives 8. British Imperial Intelligence and Anticolonial Revolutionaries during and after the Great War • Michael Silvestri 9. Wars, Dominions, and Monarchy: The Transnational Imperial Context of Ireland’s Revolution, 1916–1922 • Heather Jones Part Four: Radical Lives, Global Networks 10. Neither Lenin nor Wilson: The Evolving Anti-imperialism of Three Women of the Transatlantic Irish Left, 1916–1923 • Elizabeth McKillen 11. W. E. B. Du Bois and the Irish Revolution: Anticolonial Activism in New York, 1916–1921 • David Brundage 12. “Ireland Should Be Free, Even as Africa Shall Be Free”: Marcus Garvey’s Irish Influences • Miriam Nyhan Grey About the Editors About the Contributors Index How the Irish Revolution was shaped by international actors and events The Irish War of Independence is often understood as the culmination of centuries of political unrest between Ireland and the English. However, the conflict also has a vitally important yet vastly understudied international dimension. The Irish Revolution: A Global History reassesses the conflict as an inherently transnational event, examining how circumstances and individuals abroad shaped the course Ireland's struggle for independence. Bringing together leading international scholars of modern Ireland, its diaspora, and the British Empire, this volume discusses the Irish revolution in a truly global sense. The text situates the conflict in the wider context of the international flourishing of anti-colonial movements following World War I. Despite the differences between these movements, their proponents communicated extensively with each other, learning from and engaging with other revolutionaries in anti-imperial metropoles such as Paris, London, and New York. The contributors to this volume argue that Irish nationalists at home and abroad were intimately involved in this exchange, from mobilizing Ireland's vast diaspora in support of Irish independence to engaging directly with radical causes elsewhere. The Irish Revolution is a vital work for all those interested in Irish history, providing a new understanding of Ireland's place in the evolving postwar world. "Ireland's revolution was an inherently transnational event. Buoyed by the rise of Wilsonian self-determination and the consequent weakening of imperial prestige, radical and anti-colonial movements flourished across the globe after the First World War. Although emerging from widely differing contexts, from Korea to India, and Egypt to Ireland, proponents of these movements communicated, engaged with, and learned from one another in anti-imperial metropoles such as Paris, London and New York. Irish nationalists at home and abroad were intimately involved in this international exchange, from mobilizing Ireland's vast diaspora in support of Irish independence, or engaging directly with radical causes elsewhere in the world, to providing models for other anti-colonial struggles. Reassessing the Irish Revolution within this transnational context, this volume broadens our understanding of Ireland's place in the evolving postwar world. Foregrounding how the ebbing of political authority from the imperial to democratic nation-state created revolutionary opportunities that were seized by anti-colonial activists, this study argues for the importance of empire, anti-imperialism and new understandings of self-determination in shaping political discourse and violence in revolutionary Ireland"-- Provided by publisher