A new book by Dr. Gavin M. Foster, Irish Civil War and Society: Politics, Class, and Culture, explores the social aspects of the Irish Civil War that took place from 1922 to 1923.
According to the publisher Palgrave MacMillan, Dr. Foster “uniquely emphasizes social status as a key area of friction and contestation between supporters and opponents of the Irish Free State that informed partisan discourses, animosities and outlooks. . . . Chapters on the understudied aftermath of the civil war illuminate the political and social pressures that forced many IRA veterans to emigrate.”
Dr. Foster is associate professor of modern Irish history in the School of Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. Some of the topics he teaches include the history of Ireland, Great Irish Famine, Irish Revolution, troubles in Northern Ireland, introduction to Irish studies, and research methods in Irish studies. He is currently working on an oral history project on later generation memory of the Irish Civil War.
The book is available from Chapters Indigo, Amazon, and the publisher.
