Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
Part I In Search of the Rabble
1 Opening the Witness Accounts 17
2 Who Owned the Revolution? 24
3 The History Wars 28
4 The Fighting Stories 37
5 Closing Young Minds? 44
6 Keepers of the Revolutionary Flame 51
7 Broadening the Interpretations and the Sources 56
8 New Scepticisms, New Revisions and the Shadow of the Troubles 65
9 Labour, Gender and the Social Perspective 76
10 The Politics of Peace and the Twenty-first Century Perspective 86
Part II Revolutionary Ireland, 1913-23
11 An Evolving Nationalism 99
12 Ulster Prepared With One Voice? 1910-14 122
13 Labour, Nationalism and War: 1913-16 137
14 1916: An Idea 'Essentially Spiritual'? 150
15 The Perfect Patriots 162
16 1917-18: Bonfires and Ballots 170
17 War of Independence (1): 1919-20: Catching the Waves 185
18 The Chivalrous Soldier and the Cruel Killer 200
19 Governing, Social Realities and Justice 214
20 Land for the People? 229
21 War of Independence (2): 1921-2: The Juggernaut of Politics 236
22 Truce and Treaty 245
23 The Drift to Civil War 257
24 Civil War 269
25 Stone Hearts 279
26 Ulster's Wounded Self Love 294
27 The Tyranny of the 'Special' 306
Part III Legacy and Commemoration
28 'In danger of finding myself with nothing at all' 319
29 'For the life of my heroic son' 328
30 Homes Fit for Heroes? 341
31 Scrambling for the Bones of the Patriot Dead 348
32 'He knew as much about commanding as my dog' 358
33 Commemoration During the Troubles and the Peace Process 367
34 Remembering the First World War and Welcoming the Queen 376
35 Invoking Revolutionary Ghosts as the Celtic Tiger Dies and Fianna Fáil Collapses 387
36 New Commemorative Priorities, Sacred Cows and the Status of History 397
Notes 409
Bibliography 457
Index 479