202 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
202 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This account of the National Army during the Irish civil war tells its story from the divides created in the Republican movement by the Anglo-Irish Treaty to the development of a new military organisation capable of upholding the Treaty provisions and facilitating the establishment of a new state.
The National Army is largely overlooked in modern studies of both the Irish Defence Forces and the... Read more
Introduction
1. Factionalism within the IRA, 1921–22
2. Consolidating Free State Military Forces
3. Establishing and Expanding the National Army
4. Free State Military Losses: Reasons and Consequences
5. Exploring British Ex-Servicemen in the National Army
6. Military Supremacy: The Aftermath of the Irish Civil War
Conclusion
Biography
Jack Kavanagh is a researcher based at University College Dublin. His interests include historical geography, civil-military relations and the implementation of spatial statistics to historical enquiries. He has published articles in Archivium Hibernicum, International Journal of Arts and Humanities Computing and has two forthcoming book chapters in 2026.
