This course explores Ireland's revolution, including the rise of Irish republicanism and the partition of the island amidst bloody sectarian and political violence. Among the issues examined are the paramilitarisation of political culture, the nature and dynamics of revolutionary violence, and the entrenchment of divisions. Above all, the sense of what it was like to live through a revolution, as a rebel, a policeman, a soldier or a civilian, is a key unifying theme of this course. Together we shall explore the rich primary sources of the period, including personal correspondence, diaries, propaganda, witness statements, newspapers and police/army reports.
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