The Civil War in Kerry and Beyond

Histories, memories and legacies

Bridget McAuliffe, Mary McAuliffe and Owen O’Shea, editors

Martin Mansergh
Foreword

Thomas Earls Fitzgerald
The move from insurrection to constitutionality by anti-Treaty republicans in the post-Civil War period

Daithí Ó Corráin
Damaged buildings, commandeered vehicles and purloined provisions: compensation for property losses in Kerry after the Civil War

Orson McMahon
Civil War violence in Kerry

Richard McElligott
Kilflynn’s Civil War: a community case study of internecine conflict

Liz Gillis
Easter Week repeats itself: the battle for Dublin, June–July 1922

Hélène O’Keeffe
A Troubling Inheritance: the Civil War in Kerry in archived oral history 

Fionnuala Walsh
"A gallant fight": violence, trauma and loss at Clashmealcon Caves

Kieran McNulty
Working Class militancy in Kerry, 1921–3

John Dorney
"An era of terror": Civil War fatalities in Kerry

Mary McAuliffe
"Blazing away with their little guns": coercion and imprisonment of militant anti-treaty Kerry women in barracks and jails during the Civil War

Owen O’Shea
"We are absolutely in the rags": post-Civil War trauma and suffering among Kerry combatants and their families

Tomás Mac Conmara
"Divide them amongst the family as souvenirs": the Drumboe Martyrs and the landscape that holds their memory

Lisa McElligott, Siobhán Murphy and Philip Doyle
Inspiring creative media and visual responses to Civil War narratives in Kerry