to understand the hard realities and public illusions that have shaped the Irish state's response to its enemies.

Home Browse Books Book details, Defending Ireland: The Irish State and Its. Defending Ireland: The Irish State and Its Enemies since 1922. The four years between April 1923 and August 1927 saw the steady consolidation of the new state, beginning with republican collapse in the civil war and culminating in de Valera's grudging entry to the Dáil. in retrospect the victory of constitutional politics has the appearance of inevitability.

Professor O'Halpin examines the very limited concept of external defence understood by the first generation of Irish . It is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the development of independent Ireland since 1922.

Professor O'Halpin examines the very limited concept of external defence understood by the first generation of Irish leaders, going on to chart the state's repeated struggles with the IRA and with other perceived internal and external threats to stability.

O'Halpin paints a grim picture of the state's suppression of Irregular republican militarism .

O'Halpin paints a grim picture of the state's suppression of Irregular republican militarism in the Civil War of 1922-3. Though generally accepting that the Free State had little choice but to suppress armed absolutist republicanism, for fear, if nothing else, that it would provoke a new and much fiercer war with Britain. A story to be drawn from this book is the struggle to manufacture a National Army mystique. But it is a story much underplayed by the author who floods the reader with a highly detailed institutional history at the cost of an examination of the army's role in public symbolism.

Defending Ireland: the Irish state and its enemies since 1922. Eunan O'Halpin, Defending Ireland: The Irish State and its Enemies, The State and Civil War, p. 11 Archived 30 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Issues affecting Irish policing, 1922-1932

Defending Ireland: the Irish state and its enemies since 1922. Oxford University Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-19-924269-6. Issues affecting Irish policing, 1922-1932.

Feast and Famine: Food and Nutrition in Ireland 1500–1920. New York: Oxford University Press. Feast and Famine: Food and Nutrition in Ireland 1500–1920.

Defending Ireland: the Irish state and its enemies since 1922 (Oxford, 1999). Head of the Civil Service: a study of Sir Warren Fisher (London, 1989). The Decline of the Union: British government in Ireland, 1892-1920 (Dublin, 1987). with Robert Armstrong and Jane Ohlmeyer (ed. ) Intelligence, Statecraft and International Power (Dublin, 2006). MI5 and Ireland, 1939-1945: the official history (Dublin, 2002). with C. Crowe, R. Fanning, M. Kennedy, D. Keogh, and K. O'Malley, ed., Documents on Irish Foreign Policy volumes I-X (1998 to 2016)

The Irish State and Its Enemies Since 1922. First history of national security in the Irish state. Right up to date; from independence (1922) to the present day. Uses newly released material from Irish and foreign archives.

The Irish State and Its Enemies Since 1922. No other history books covering Irish government over this period. The Irish State and Its Enemies Since 1922. This book is the first to draw together the various strands of Irish national security policy and practice in a single chronological study, from independence in 1922 right.

Bibliographic Details. Title: Defending Ireland: The Irish State and Its. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Publication Date: 2000. About the Author: Eunan O'Halpin is at Trinity College, Dublin.

In August 1922 he was part of a government committee which was intended to consider what the "Irish free state"'s policy towards . O'Halpin, Eunan Defending Ireland: The Irish State and Its Enemies Since 1922 : 2000 : ISBN 978-0-19-924269-6.

In August 1922 he was part of a government committee which was intended to consider what the "Irish free state"'s policy towards North-east Ulster would b. .During the Second World War, known at the time in Ireland as "The Emergency", Walsh's connections with fascism, including his association with Ailtirí na hAiséirghe, brought him to the attention of the Directorate of Intelligence G2, the Intelligence branch of the Irish Army  .