Four Courts Press Ltd

How close did Trinity come to being a central battleground in the Rising? How and why did it escape this grisly fate? And--not least--what might have happened but for the timely intervention of the colonial troops? Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916 puts this neglected episode into an imperial context, with Dublin as a theatre of battle in a global war.

The political events of the decade of revolution in Donegal examined in this book are set firmly in the context of the underlying social and economic background.

How did Ireland travel from the glorious Proclamation of 1916 with its promise of equality and universal citizenship to the conservative Constitution of 1937, which allowed for only a domestic identity for women? This book is a study of that journey, an overview of how specific pieces of legislation worked together to create an unequal state.

This work examines Irish periodicals as a network of ideas that played a vital role as a space for public debate in the year of home rule.