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A History of Ireland explores the story of Ireland from the 12th
century to the present day. This new edition has been revised,
updated and expanded to take into account the latest scholarship
and major recent political, economic, social, and cultural events.
This is a comprehensive and nuanced historical survey of the death
penalty in Ireland from the immediate post-civil war period through
to its complete abolition. Using original archival material, this
book sheds light on the various social, legal and political
contexts in which the death penalty operated and was discussed. In
Ireland the death penalty served a dual function: as an instrument
of punishment in the civilian criminal justice system, and as a
weapon to combat periodic threats to the security of the state
posed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Through close examination
of cases dealt with in the ordinary criminal courts, this study
elucidates ideas of class, gender, community and sanity and
explores their impact on the administration of justice. The
application of the death penalty also had a strong political
dimension, most evident in the enactment of emergency legislation
and the setting up of military courts specifically aimed at the
IRA. As the book demonstrates, the civilian and the political
strands converged in the story of the abolition of the death
penalty in Ireland. Long after decision-makers accepted that the
death penalty was no longer an acceptable punishment for 'ordinary'
cases of murder, lingering anxieties about the threat of
subversives dictated the pace of abolition and the scope of the
relevant legislation.
This is a comprehensive and nuanced historical survey of the death
penalty in Ireland from the immediate post-civil war period through
to its complete abolition. Using original archival material, this
book sheds light on the various social, legal and political
contexts in which the death penalty operated and was discussed. In
Ireland the death penalty served a dual function: as an instrument
of punishment in the civilian criminal justice system, and as a
weapon to combat periodic threats to the security of the state
posed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Through close examination
of cases dealt with in the ordinary criminal courts, this study
elucidates ideas of class, gender, community and sanity and
explores their impact on the administration of justice. The
application of the death penalty also had a strong political
dimension, most evident in the enactment of emergency legislation
and the setting up of military courts specifically aimed at the
IRA. As the book demonstrates, the civilian and the political
strands converged in the story of the abolition of the death
penalty in Ireland. Long after decision-makers accepted that the
death penalty was no longer an acceptable punishment for 'ordinary'
cases of murder, lingering anxieties about the threat of
subversives dictated the pace of abolition and the scope of the
relevant legislation.
Covering the period from the game's origins in Ireland in the 1870s
through to the onset of professional rugby in the twenty-first
century, this book seeks to examine Munster rugby within the
context of broader social, cultural and political trends in Irish
society. As well as providing a thorough chronological survey of
the game's development, key themes such as violence, masculinity,
class and politics are subject to more detailed treatment. Since
the turn of the twenty-first century rugby football in Munster has
seen extraordinary growth in terms of popularity and cultural
significance. The Munster rugby team in particular has become a
hugely important provincial institution through which regional
identity has been expressed on the international stage. This book
will detail and analyse the game's evolution in Munster from its
origins in the 1870s through to the dawn of the professional era in
the 2000s. Focusing mainly on the game's two centres of popularity
in Limerick and Cork cities, this book will display how contrary to
popular myth, rugby football rarely expressed any kind of unitary,
coherent identity throughout the province. The game was centred on
clubs and was highly adaptable to local conditions throughout its
history. In addition, the often fractious internal politics of the
game within the province, reflecting the game's contrasting social
development in Limerick and Cork, will also be discussed. Drawing
on the unpublished records of the game's provincial and national
administrative bodies and a comprehensive survey of the provincial
press, this book will show how one sport served multifarious roles
in terms of class, culture and politics in Munster.
A History of Ireland explores the story of Ireland from the 12th
century to the present day. This new edition has been revised,
updated and expanded to take into account the latest scholarship
and major recent political, economic, social, and cultural events.
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