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Title Page
List of Abbreviations
IN TEXT
Maps
Introduction: Up the Republic! Republicanism in Ireland
‘MILLIONS OF IRISHMEN WERE AND ARE SEPARATISTS IN CONVICTION’
The Republic
Part One: THE IMAGINED STATE: 1918–1919
‘THE COUNTRY IS THOROUGHLY ROUSED’
‘COMBATING GERMAN INTRIGUE’
‘THE MOVEMENT’
‘EVERY SOD OF RANCH LAND’
‘A BITTER AND AGGRESSIVE FEELING’
‘AN IRISH REPUBLIC POSSESSING ITS OWN DISTINCT FLAG’
‘JACK, THE FIGHT COULD LAST A HUNDRED YEARS, ONE HUNDRED YEARS’
‘THE FIRST OFFICERS WERE ELECTED’
‘SENTIMENTALLY SEDITIOUS SHOPGIRLS’
‘A CERTAIN IDEAL OF FREEDOM’
‘THERE ARE DEAD MEN VOTING HERE TODAY’
‘THE IRISH PEOPLE CAN PRODUCE THEIR REPUBLIC AT WHATEVER MOMENT THEY LIKE’
‘A COUNTRY’S CONSULS ARE ITS MOST VALUABLE CIVIL SERVANTS’
‘DON’T ARGUE, BUT SHOOT!’
‘THIS INVISIBLE STATE’
‘TO MAKE THE IRISH REPUBLIC A LIVING FACT’
SINEWS OF POWER
PROJECTING THE VIRTUAL STATE
‘A CONDITION OF VEILED INSURRECTION’
‘THE INCULCATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF GUERRILLA WARFARE’
Part Two: TWO GOVERNMENTS: 1920
‘TWO GOVERNMENTS WAGING WAR’
‘AN ILLEGAL GOVERNMENT HAS BECOME THE DE FACTO GOVERNMENT’
‘THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THE CIVIL SIDE’
‘A PANIC MEASURE OF RAISING 8,000 SCALLYWAGS’
‘YOUR COUNTRY SUFFERS FROM CANCER’
‘THROTTLING THE RAILWAY SYSTEM’
‘IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO SHAKE THEIR BELIEF IN THE REALITY OF A REPUBLIC’
‘STAMPING OUT TERRORISM BY SECRET MURDER’
‘THE NIGHT CAN SWEAT WITH TERROR’
‘THE FIRST DIRECT ATTACK MADE UPON THE IRISH REPUBLIC’
‘IT WAS EASY FOR LINEN TO BURN’
THE ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
THE INTELLIGENCE WAR
‘ANOTHER MARTYR’
‘A CAMPAIGN THAT DID NOT SEEM TO BE LEADING ANYWHERE’
‘THE VERY AIR IS MADE SWEETER’
‘THEY SHOT THE WHOLE LOT OF THEM OFF?’
‘A MORE DEFINITELY MILITARY CHARACTER’
Part Three: WAR AND PEACE – TRIALS OF THE COUNTER-STATE: 1921
‘IF IT IS WAR WE MUST HAVE A VIRTUAL DICTATOR’
‘THE NATIONAL ARMY OF DEFENCE’: REPUBLICAN ARMY AND STATE
‘THE MACHINERY OF THE REPUBLIC’
‘SKATING ON VERY THIN ICE’
BATTLING FOR DUBLIN
WOMEN’S WORK
‘TINKERING WITH THE HONOUR OF THE NATION’
‘NO IRISHMAN HAS A RIGHT TO A POSITION OF NEUTRALITY’
‘DRASTIC ACTION WAS TAKEN’
REPUBLICAN LAW
CHURCH AND COUNTER-STATE
DECENTRALIZATION AND DIVISIONALIZATION
‘IN HOSTILE TERRITORY’
THE REPUBLIC’S FIRST GENERAL ELECTION
THE MILITARY BALANCE
THE PROPAGANDA BATTLE
‘IN DEALING WITH THE IRISH YOU MUST SHOW THAT YOU MEAN TO GO ON’
‘TO LIE DOWN AND BE KICKED BY MURDERERS’
TALKING TO THE ENEMY
‘THERE SHOULD BE NO QUESTION OF VACATION OR HALF-TIME WORK’
‘WAS IT ANY WONDER THAT THE FIRE OF THE ARMY DIED DOWN?’
‘COLLECTIONS PURE AND SIMPLE’
NEW GOVERNMENT, NEW ARMY
NEGOTIATORS: PURISTS AND PRAGMATISTS?
‘OUR CIVIL FUNCTIONS’
‘THE CELTS NEVER WERE REPUBLICANS’
Part Four: THE REPUBLIC FRACTURED: 1922–1923
THE TREATY AS IT IS DRAFTED IS NOT ACCEPTABLE TO US’
‘IN ONE YEAR OR TEN IRELAND WILL REGAIN THAT FREEDOM WHICH IS HER DESTINY’
THE TRUCE CHRISTMAS
HUMAN STRUCTURES OF THE SPLIT
‘OUR CIVIL SERVICES HAVE SIMPLY PLAYED AT GOVERNING A REPUBLIC’
THE BROTHERHOOD
THE ‘YEAR OF DISAPPEARANCES’
HIBERNIA IRREDENTA
‘POWER WIELDED BY MEN WHO HAVE NO LEGAL AUTHORITY’
‘MANY MORE OF US WILL DIE’
THE TAKEOVER
‘A REPUBLIC IN DISGUISE’
‘NOT ONLY THE END OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC, BUT THE END OF REPUBLICANISM IN IRELAND’
‘OUR BOAST OF CIVILISATION IN THESE ISLANDS IS STULTIFIED’
‘IT’S GOOD TO FEEL MYSELF A SOLDIER AGAIN’
‘WE LET THE REPUBLIC GO BY DEFAULT’
‘IT IS IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST THAT ORDER SHOULD BE RESTORED’
‘GIVE THEM NO REST’
WILLIAM COSGRAVE ENTERS HIS INHERITANCE
REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT
‘VERY DRASTIC MEASURES’
‘THE REPUBLIC CAN NO LONGER BE DEFENDED’
Conclusion
Appendix: Biographical Glossary
Illustrations
Bibliography
Notes
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES
Acknowledgments
Follow Penguin
Copyright Page
Footnote
Part Two: TWO GOVERNMENTS: 1920
Page 197
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