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    Green Against Green – The Irish Civil War: A History of the Irish Civil War, 1922–1923
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    Green Against Green – The Irish Civil War: A History of the Irish Civil War, 1922–1923
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    Green Against Green – The Irish Civil War: A History of the Irish Civil War, 1922–1923

    By Michael Hopkinson

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    Michael Hopkinson’s Green Against Green is the definitive study of the Irish civil war, putting in perspective a bitter and passionate conflict, the legacy of which still divides Irish society today. Widely praised and frequently cited as the most authoritative work on the subject, it continues to hold its place as one of the finest works on modern Irish history.

    Unlike the Easter Rising and the War of Independence, the Irish Civil War has been largely overlooked by historians, put off by the messy divisions between former War of Independence allies and its continued importance in modern Irish society: even now, the rival parties in the conflict form the basis for two of the largest political parties in Ireland.

    In Green Against Green, Michael Hopkinson addresses this gap in Irish historical writing, looking closely at the reasons for the outbreak of civil war, the major figures who directed it, how it was fought and its impact across Ireland. This major achievement of historical scholarship traces the history and course of the war from 1912 to its conclusion, starting with a sketch of the background to the divisions which surfaced during the war and continuing through to the functioning of the post-civil war Irish State.

    This groundbreaking work, ‘a dispassionate account of the most passionate times’ (Irish Times), captures the confused loyalties and localised, often personal, violence that characterised one of the most critical, and least studied, formative events in modern Irish history.

    Green Against Green: Table of Contents
      Preface

      PART I. 1912-1921
    1. The Background to the Treaty Divisions, 1912-1918
    2. The Anglo-Irish War, January 1919-July 1921, and the Truce Period
    3. The Treaty Negotiations
    4. The Treaty Split
    5. The Irish Question in the United States

      6. PART II. FROM THE TREATY TO THE ATTACK ON THE FOUR COURTS
    6. The Political and Constitutional Background in Early 1922
    7. The Military Split
    8. De Valera and the Military and Political Developments
    9. Military Developments after the Army Convention
    10. The North, from Treaty to Attack on the Four Courts
    11. Social and Governmental Problems
    12. The Search for Unity
    13. The Constitution
    14. The June Election and the Assassination of Sir Henry Wilson

      15. PART III. THE OPENING OF THE WAR
    15. The Attack on the Four Courts
    16. Dublin Fighting

      17. PART IV. THE EARLY CIVIL WAR
    17. The Military and Political Background to the Fighting
    18. The War in the Localities: July-August 1922
    19. The Opening of the Guerrilla Phase of the War
    20. The Death of Collins
    21. The Establishment of the Third Dáil
    22. Peace Initiatives
    23. The Formation of the Republican Government
    24. The First Executions
    25. The British Government and the Early Civil War
    26. The Southern Unionists and the Civil War
    27. The Civil War and the Railways
    28. The War in the Localities: September 1922-January 1923

      29. PART V. THE WAR’S END
    29. The Free State—Government and Army: January-April 1923
    30. The Republicans and the Civil War: January-April 1923
    31. The War in the Localities: January-April 1923
    32. The North and the Civil War
    33. Exile Nationalism: The United States and Britain in the Civil War
    34. The Ceasefire

      35. PART VI. THE POST-WAR PERIOD
    35. The Republicans
    36. The Post-War Free State Government and Army
    37. The Republican Hunger-Strike, October-November 1923

      38. Conclusion
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGill Books
    Release dateMar 23, 2004
    ISBN9780717158195
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    Green Against Green – The Irish Civil War: A History of the Irish Civil War, 1922–1923
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    Michael Hopkinson

    Dr Michael Hopkinson was a reader in history at Stirling University, Scotland. One of the world’s leading authorities on the Irish revolutionary period, he is the author of Green Against Green and The Irish War of Independence.

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