Martin Maguire

The civil service and the revolution in Ireland 1912-1938

'Shaking the blood-stained hand of Mr Collins'

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a history of the Irish civil service and its response to revolutionary changes in the State. It examines the response of the civil service to the threat of partition, World War, the emergence of the revolutionary forces of Dail Eireann and the IRA through to the Civil War and the Irish Free State. Questioning the orthodox interpretation of evolution rather than revolution in the administration of the State it throws new light on civil service organization in British-ruled Ireland, the process whereby Northern Ireland came into existence, the Dail Eireann administration in the War of Independence, and civil service attitudes to the new Irish Free State. Based on a wide range of new sources, the book is of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Irish, Imperial and Commonwealth history and of post-colonial, governance and political studies as well as a reader with an interest in the role of the State in the process of decolonisation in the 20th century.

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Refutes the orthodox view that the independent Irish State accepted intact the civil service inherited from the former British regime in Dublin Castle

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780719081941
• ISBN-10: 0719081947
• Artikelnr.: 27380661

Autorenporträt

Martin Maguire is Lecturer in History at the Department of Humanities, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1.The civil service and the State in Ireland
1912-18 2.Dublin Castle in crisis
1918-21 3.Partition
the revolutionary State and the civil service
1920-21 4.The Provisional Government and the civil service
1922 5.Cumann na nGaedheal and the civil service
1923-32 6.Fianna Fáil and the civil service
1932-38 7.Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index