Overview
Examines the social history of the Irish military during the last fifty years of British rule in Ireland
Draws on public and private written sources from hundreds of Irish military officers
Explores the tensions between class and social position, political power and legitimacy and the role of national identity in maintaining symbolic authority
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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About this book
This book is a social history of Irish officers in the British army in the final half-century of Crown rule in Ireland. Drawing on the accounts of hundreds of officers, it charts the role of military elites in Irish society, and the building tensions between their dual identities as imperial officers and Irishmen, through land agitation, the home rule struggle, the First World War, the War of Independence, and the partition of Ireland. What emerges is an account of the deeply interwoven connections between Ireland and the British army, casting officers as social elites who played a pivotal role in Irish society, and examining the curious continuities of this connection even when officers’ moral authority was shattered by war, revolution, independence, and a divided nation.
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About the author
Loughlin Sweeney is Assistant Professor at the John Endicott College of International Studies in South Korea, where he lectures on global history and researches Irish communities in the nineteenth-century Pacific. He conducted this research while pursuing a doctorate at Queens’ College Cambridge, awarded in 2017. Since then, he has been a visiting fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, UK and the University of Edinburgh, UK, and he publishes regularly in the fields of Irish history, the British Empire, the Irish diaspora, and imperial, colonial, and postcolonial studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Irish Military Elites, Nation and Empire, 1870–1925
Book Subtitle: Identity and Authority
Authors: Loughlin Sweeney
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19307-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19306-5Published: 15 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19309-6Published: 16 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19307-2Published: 05 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 301
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Military, Political History