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Irish Civil War : Law, Execution and Atrocity by Sean Enright (2019, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherIrish Academic Press
ISBN-10178537253X
ISBN-139781785372537
eBay Product ID (ePID)9038397951
Product Key Features
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameIrish Civil War : Law, Execution and Atrocity
SubjectEurope / Great Britain / General, Europe / Ireland, Europe / General
Publication Year2019
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaHistory
AuthorSean Enright
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight11.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2019-410184
Reviews"It is to Enright's enormous credit that, in their absence, he has been able to piece so much back together. Until recently, the two main parties in southern Ireland, Fianna Fáil and the heirs of the 1922-1932 government, Fine Gael, based themselves on the sides taken in the civil war, not on any clear ideological differences. The bitterness of that conflict echoed down the 20th century, long after it had finished. Such executions and reprisal killings continue, of course, but post-1945 they are now criminal offences under international law. This book looks back before that time, and it is a shocking read almost a century on." --Chris Bambery, Military History, "This book will be popular with both the general reader and the specialist, and is sure to stir up a debate two years ahead of the centenaries of its events." --Joe Culley, History Ireland
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal941.50822
SynopsisDuring the Irish Civil War, eighty-three prisoners were executed after trial by military court. The Irish Civil War: Law, Execution and Atrocity explores the pressures that drove the provisional government to try prisoners for arms offences by military courts, and how, at a time of great crisis, the rule of law evaporated and the new policy morphed into reprisal executions. More than 125 further prisoners were killed in the custody of the state: kidnapped and shot; tied to landmines and blown up; shot after surrender, 'trying to escape' or even killed under interrogation. These men were killed because they were anti-treaty fighters or because they were suspected of involvement or sympathy with the anti-treaty cause. In the heat of civil war, the inquest system became part of the battle ground where the emerging state connived at the suppression of evidence and turned a blind eye to perjury and cover-up. At the end of the Civil War, there were 3,000 dead, over 10,000 wounded, 13,000 interned, and many more forced into migration. And in this period of great crisis, the bedrock of law itself had been shattered. This dark, secret corner of Irish history, whose bitter legacy affects society to this day, is uncompromisingly exposed in The Irish Civil War: Law, Execution and Atrocity ., During the Irish Civil War, eighty-three prisoners were executed after trial by military court. The Irish Civil War: Law, Execution and Atrocity explores the pressures that drove the provisional government to try prisoners for arms offences by military courts, and how, at a time of great crisis, the rule of law evaporated and the new policy morphed into reprisal executions.
LC Classification NumberDA963
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