Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War.
Author: HOPKINSON, Michael.
Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2004. xx, 336 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
Michael Hopkinson’s Green Against Green has long been established as the definitive study of the Irish civil war. Widely praised and frequently cited as the most authoritative work on the subject, it continues to hold its place as one of the finest works in modern Irish history.
Contents:-
Preface
List of illustrations
PART I. 1912-1921
1 The Background to the Treaty Divisions, 1912-1918
2 The Anglo-Irish War, January 1919 - July 1921, and the Truce Period
3 The Treaty Negotiations
4 The Treaty Split
5 The Irish Question in the United States
PART II. FROM THE TREATY TO THE ATTACK ON THE FOUR COURTS
6 The Political and Constitutional Background in Early 1922
7 The Military Split
8 De Valera and the Military and Political Developments
9 Military Developments after the Army Convention
10 The North, from Treaty to Attack on the Four Courts
11 Social and Governmental Problems
12 The Search for Unity
13 The Constitution
14 The June Election and the Assassination of Sir Henry Wilson
PART III. THE OPENING OF THE WAR
15 The Attack on the Four Courts
16 The Dublin Fighting
PART IV. THE EARLY CIVIL WAR
17 The Military and Political Background to the Fighting
18 The War in the Localities: July-August 1922
19 The Opening of the Guerrilla Phase of the War
20 The Death of Collins
21 The Establishment of the Third Dail
22 Peace Initiatives
23 The Formation of the Republican Government
24 The First Executions
25 The British Government and the Early Civil War
26 The Southern Unionists and the Civil War
27 The Civil War and the Railways
28 The War in the Localities: September 1922 - January 1923
PART V. THE WAR’S END
29 The Free State—Government and Army: January - April 1923
30 The Republicans and the Civil War: January-April 1923
31 The War in the Localities: January-April 1923
32 The North and the Civil War
33 Exile Nationalism: The United States and Britain in the Civil War
34 The Ceasefire
PART VI. THE POST-WAR PERIOD
35 The Republicans
36 The Post-War Free State Government and Army
37 The Republican Hunger-Strike, October-November 1923
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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