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Book SynopsisThis book brings together new research on loyalism in the 26 counties that would become the Irish Free State. It covers a range of topics and experiences, including the Third Home Rule crisis in 1912, the revolutionary period, partition, independence and Irish participation in the British armed and colonial service up to the declaration of the Republic in 1949. The essays gathered here examine who southern Irish loyalists were, what loyalism meant to them, how they expressed their loyalism, their responses to Irish independence and their experiences afterwards.
The collection offers fresh insights and new perspectives on the Irish Revolution and the early years of southern independence, based on original archival research. It addresses issues of particular historiographical and political interest during the ongoing ‘Decade of Centenaries’, including revolutionary violence, sectarianism, political allegiance and identity and the Irish border, but, rather than ceasing its coverage in 1922 or 1923, this book – like the lives with which it is concerned – continues into the first decades of southern Irish independence.
List of contributors: Frank Barry, Elaine Callinan, Jonathan Cherry, Seamus Cullen, Ian d'Alton, Sean Gannon, Katherine Magee, Alan McCarthy, Pat McCarthy, Daniel Purcell, Joseph Quinn, Brian M. Walker, Fionnuala Walsh, Donald Wood
Trade Review'The chapters in this volume provide a variety of insights into the southern Irish loyalist experience in the early years of the new state... In addition to being of interest to scholars of Irish Unionism and Protestantism, this book will be of use to those interested in local politics, social upheaval during the revolution, and Irish service in the military and imperial civil service.'
Nicola K. Morris, Journal of British Studies
‘This is a carefully conceived volume which succeeds in its intent to explore the many faces of loyalism within twenty-six counties Irish society in the period. It has done a lot of service to expanding the historical record on political allegiance between 1912 and 1949.’
Ida Milne,
A Church of Ireland JournalTable of ContentsSouthern Irish loyalism from Home Rule crisis to Republic: an introduction
Brian Hughes and Conor Morrissey
Crisis and Decline? Protestants and Unionists in Revolution
1. Protestant population decline in southern Ireland, 1911–26
Donald Wood
2. Voting to maintain the Union in 1918: ‘the strongest pillars upon which they stood’
Elaine Callinan3. Southern Protestant voices during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War: reports from Church of Ireland synods
Brian M. Walker4. The southern unionist business community and the economics of Home Rule and succession
Frank Barry
Servants of the Crown
5. Loyal to what? Identity and motivation in the southern Irish Protestant involvement in two world wars
Ian d’Alton6. ‘The future welfare of the Empire will depend more largely on our women and girls’: southern loyalist women and the British war effort in Ireland, 1914–1922
Fionnuala Walsh7. Southern Irish loyalists and imperial service
Séan Gannon8. ‘It was the done thing’: southern Irish Protestants and the Second World War
Joseph Quinn
The Provincial Experience 9. Henry Lawrence Tivy (1848–1929): the rise and fall of a Cork loyalist
Alan McCarthy10. A beleaguered community? Waterford loyalists during the revolution, 1912–1924
Pat McCarthy11. Loyalists in a garrison county: Kildare, 1912–1923
Seamus CullenLost Counties? Loyalism at the Border12. ‘Cast Out!’ Cavan and Monaghan loyalists and partition, 1916–1923
Daniel Purcell13. Adaptive coexistence? Lord Farnham (1879–1957) and southern loyalism in pre- and post-Independence Ireland
Jonathan Cherry14. Defying the partition of Ulster: Colonel John George Vaughan Hart and the unionist experience of the Irish Revolution in East Donegal, c.1919–1944
Katherine MageeAfterword: layers of loyalty
Brian Hughes and Conor Morrissey
