1. Introduction -- 2. Decolonization and civil war in comparative perspective -- 3. The doctrine of self-determination and the treaty split -- 4. The course of the Civil War -- 5. Explaining the intractability of the conflict -- 6. Civil society under strain : intermediary organizations and the Civil War -- 7. Protective democracy and the establishment of the free state -- 8. 'Defending the republic' and the rise of Fianna Fail -- 9. Historians and the Civil War -- 10. Conclusion
Summary
Based on extensive archival research, this text situates the Irish civil war in the general process of decolonization in the 20th century, and explains why divisions over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1924 proved so formative in the development of the Irish state
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and index
