Peter Hart, The I.R.A. and its enemies: violence and community in Cork, 1916-1923
In this outstanding excavation of the ground-level struggles of a war of independence, Peter Hart leaves the worst to last. We are not left to celebrate the heroics of the young men (mostly, but women too) who found themselves caught up in a tide of escalating violence, but rather to ponder the awf...
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| Формат: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Язык: | Anglais |
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| Online-ссылка: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Итог: | In this outstanding excavation of the ground-level struggles of a war of independence, Peter Hart leaves the worst to last. We are not left to celebrate the heroics of the young men (mostly, but women too) who found themselves caught up in a tide of escalating violence, but rather to ponder the awfulness of vendettas pursued against ‘neighbours and enemies’. For as Ireland stumbled from war into truce and treaty and then the civil war of recalcitrant republicans against treaty compromisers, ... |
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