Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The price of loyalty: violence, compensation and the British in the Irish Free State; 3. The 'Campaign of Fire': arson during the Irish Civil War; 4. 'The right to live in my own country': intimidation, expulsion and local-community conflict; 5. Harming civilians: killing, wounding and sexual violence in Munster; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography.
This book provides an innovative study of the violence experienced by non-combatants during the Irish Civil War of 1922–3.
Dr Gemma Clark studied at Queen's College, Oxford, where she took a first-class honours degree in History in 2005. Her undergraduate dissertation, on Irish history, won the university-wide Arnold Modern History Prize and she went on to earn a Master's in Historical Research in 2007 and a DPhil in 2011. Dr Clark's doctorate, co-supervised by Professor Roy Foster and Dr Tim Wilson, analyses the range of harmful and frightening acts largely ignored by military histories of the Irish Civil War, and places Ireland's conflict in an international perspective. Her first monograph, Everyday Violence in the Irish Civil War, is based on her doctoral research. In 2012, Dr Clark moved to Sydney, Australia to take up her first academic post, the Sarah Sharkey Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Global Irish Studies Centre, University of New South Wales. Her postdoctoral project, 'A History of Arson in Modern Ireland', further develops her research into hitherto academically neglected acts of violence. She addresses the use of non-lethal arson by a range of social and political groups who have used fire as a form of protest since 1800, contextualising Irish incendiarism in relation to the uses of and responses to arson in mainland Europe. In January 2015, Gemma returned to the UK to take up the post of Lecturer in British and Irish History at the University of Exeter, where she continues her research and teaching on the themes of violence and warfare.
'This is an important and well-researched book that is a must-read
for students of the Irish Revolution and of civil conflict more
generally. Clark's innovative work on postwar compensation claims
points to the central role that the toxic and intimate violence of
the Irish Civil War played in the articulation of increasingly
divergent British and Irish identities in the 1920s. The next
decade doubtless will see continued growth in work on the history
of violence in Ireland's revolutionary era. The scholars who pursue
this research will be in debt to Gemma Clark for this thoughtful
and provocative monograph.' Journal of British Studies
'[This book] contains a wealth of human interest … People who want
to get below the surface of the revolution's final years will need
books like this.' Charles Townshend, Irish Times
'Everyday Violence in the Irish Civil War will influence the
historiography of the Irish Civil War. The author has given voice
to embattled loyalists, whose trials and tribulations impress and
inform the reader.' John Borgonovo, The Journal of Modern History
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