Table of Contents

Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Diarmaid Ferriter & Susannah Riordan: Introduction; Eamon O'Flaherty: Michael Laffan, Portrait of a Historian; William Murphy: 'Voteless Alas': Suffragist Protest and the Census of Ireland in 1911; Paul Rouse & Ross O'Carroll: Sport and War: The 1915 All-Ireland Hurling Championship; Brian Maye: Michael Keogh: Recruiting Sergeant for Casement's Irish Brigade; Conor Mulvagh: A Souring of Friendships?: Internal Divisions in the Leadership of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the Aftermath of the Easter Rising; Shauna Gilligan: Painting Pictures and Telling Tales: The Scholarly and Popular Portrayal of Patrick Pearse, 1916-27; Katie Lingard: Physical Force within the Bounds of Political Constraints: GHQ's Role in the War of Independence; Marie Coleman: Violence Against Women During the Irish War of Independence, 1919-21; Anne Dolan: 'Spies and Informers Beware Una Newell: 'Have We Been Playing at Republicanism?': The Treaty, the Pact Election and the Civil War in Co. Galway; Diarmaid Ferriter: 'Always in Danger of Finding Myself with Nothing at all': The Military Service Pensions and the Battle for Material Survival, 1925-55; Marnie Hay: From Rogue Revolutionary to Rogue Civil Servant: The Resurrection of Bulmer Hobson; Tom Garvin: The Making of Irish Revolutionary Elites: The Case of Sean Lemass; Clara Cullen: Select Bibliography; Notes; Index.

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New perspectives from leading historians - including Diarmaid Ferriter, Marie Coleman, Anne Dolan and Tom Garvin - on Ireland's revolutionary period that led to the formation of a new nation. Research based on a variety of recently released archival material - including censuses of Ireland of 1901 and 1911, the Bureau of Military History collection, the Military Archives and Service Pensions Collection.

About the Author

Diarmaid Ferriter is one of Ireland's best-known historians and is Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD. His books include The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 (2004), Judging Dev: A Reassessment of the Life and Legacy of Eamon de Valera (2007), Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland (2009), and Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s (2012). His most recent book is A Nation and Not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1 913-23 (2015). He is a regular broadcaster on television and radio and a weekly columnist with the Irish Times. Susannah Riordan is a lecturer in the School of History, University College Dublin. Her main research interests lie in the fields of Irish and British social, religious and intellectual history and in the history of sexuality. She has published numerous articles on these topics and is the co-editor, with Catherine Cox, of Adolescence in Modern Irish History (2015). She is currently the Secretary of the Irish Historical Society.

Reviews

'Michael Laffan's contribution to the history of the revolutionary period was unique ... He also made a significant impression on a generation of University College Dublin students, many of whom assemble to honour him with this collection of essays ... the subjects of their contributions ... range from pre-war suffragism and the GAA, via the Irish parliamentary party and the IRA to the careers of Bulmer Hobson and Sean Lemass ... UCD Press has produced an appropriately elegant-looking book ... embellished with a well-chosen collection of highly atmospheric, mostly unfamiliar photographs. Bringing together established and new historians, it forms a worthy tribute.' Charles Townshend, The Irish Times, 16 January 2016 'Years of Turbulence is written in honour of UCD History lecturer Michael Laffan, a man responsible for forging a different approach to the events of 1916 over previous decades. The book is suitably scholarly, and there's no doubting the effort taken in winkling out valuable insights from hitherto darkened corners of the period.' Noel Baker, Irish Examiner, 16 January 2016 'As the centenary of the Easter Rising approaches, historians have been busy tapping newly revealed sources and archives for new angles on this landmark event and its aftermath up to the end of the Civil War in 1923. While the main politico-military narrative remains largely unchanged, research into the underlying social and cultural conditions of these "years of turbulence" is yielding valuable new information.'The Irish Catholic, 10 March 2016 'An excellent new book ... here some of Ireland's most talented historians offer new perspectives and insight into Ireland's revolutionary period from 1912-1923, giving a platform to many of the muted voices of the revolution and elaborate on some of the central, current debates on the revolutionary period.'The Irish Voice, January 2016 'A fitting tribute to the career of Michael Laffan ... The essays on the Military Service Pension Records, the GAA, Parliamentary Party responses to 1916, violence against women, responses to the 1911 census and the killing of informers provide particularly engaging interpretations of their given topics that might be employed for teaching purposes.' Irish Studies Review, 2017 'Each chapter - without exception - adds significantly to our knowledge and understanding of that time [1912-23] ... The work of female historians stand out in this volume and, as expected, they help us to rediscover the role of women in the independence struggle ... This is a handsomely produced volume with a couple of dozen well-chosen illustrations. It is a fine tribute to an outstanding Irish historian [Michael Laffan].' Jonathan Bardon, Familia: Ulster Genealogical Review, 2016