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Article Dans Une Revue Études irlandaises Année : 2017

Class Struggle in the 1916-23 Irish Revolution: A Reappraisal

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In line with the view generally held by most historians over the past decades, Peter Hart’s The IRA at War, 1916-1923 (2003) tends to play down significantly the importance of the social disputes in the 1916-23 Irish Revolution. Hart justifies his approach by the fact that those disputes did not pave the way for radical social change in the new Irish Free State. However respectable this statement may be, it remains nonetheless disputable given that, in Terence Dooley’s own words, “other than acknowledging some contribution of agrarian issues to the revolution, historians have failed to take up the challenge of exploring them in greater detail or, indeed, to be fully convinced of their existence” (see ‘The Land for the People’: The Land Question in Independent Ireland, Dublin, University College Dublin Press, 2004, p. 17). This observation is also consistent with the fact that such subversive experiments as the 1918-1923 Irish Soviets have hitherto been examined somewhat on the fringe of mainstream academic research. As part of a project devoted to the latter, the present article will therefore seek to reappraise the relevance of Hart’s analysis by assessing the extent to which “class struggle” was an integral part of the Irish Revolution.
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Olivier Coquelin. Class Struggle in the 1916-23 Irish Revolution: A Reappraisal. Études irlandaises, 2017, ⟨10.4000/etudesirlandaises.5243⟩. ⟨hal-02376919⟩
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