Liverpool University Press to publish Dr. Richard McElligott’s edited collection on the aftermath of Ireland’s Civil War
Dr Richard McElligott, lecturer in modern and Irish history in the Department of Humanities, has recently signed a book contract with Liverpool University Press, to publish a new edited collection exploring the aftermath of Ireland's Civil War.
Entitled, Echoes of War: Legacies of Ireland’s Civil War, it will assemble the latest, ground-breaking research on the multifaceted impact and enduring inheritance of the conflict on Irish life in the years and decades that followed. It will present an illuminating survey of the everyday lived experiences of that struggle and its aftermath, situating Ireland’s experience of civil war within the broader European and international history of internecine conflict and their societal effects and residues.
The collection will use a variety of local/regional, communal, familial and personal case studies to highlight how the violence, suffering, trauma and memory of the conflict echoed on in daily life across Irish society for decades to come. Likewise, the War’s impact on areas as diverse and understudied as local politics, the former membership of the RIC, the status of women in post-conflict society, official and local commemoration and popular devotional practices will also be assessed.
The contributors, including Dr McElligott himself, are representative of a broad spectrum of Ireland’s academic research community working on the history and legacy of the Irish Civil War.
The collection represents one of the main outputs of Dr McElligott's ongoing 'Echoes of War' research project that has been generously funded by the Royal Irish Academy's Decade of Centenaries Bursary Award. See:
The book is due to be published next year as part of Liverpool University Press' Re-Appraisals of Irish History series:
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-series/reappraisals-in-irish-history
