The Irish Revolution: A Global History

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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. 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