Ireland’s war experience cannot be separated from Irish politics. Indeed, the st…

Irish engagement with the First World War was active and intense and yet, for mu…

The commemoration of the First World War in Britain and Ireland has a complex hi…

Although a military failure, the 1916 rebellion transformed Ireland by destroyin…

The Great War marked a period of profound upheaval in British politics. The old …

This historiographical article surveys key interventions in scholarship of Irela…

The wartime demand for labour enhanced its economic and political strength. Indu…

The literature produced in Great Britain and Ireland during and after the First …

At the outbreak of war, the populations of Britain and Ireland understood that v…

The outbreak of war in 1914 interrupted a political crisis within the United Kin…

Discussions of press and propaganda in the British Isles sometimes focus excessi…

Several distinct cultural, political, and class-based groups organized paramilit…

During the First World War, hundreds of thousands of men found themselves intern…

British and Irish domestic propaganda evolved patchily throughout the war. It un…

This article considers social conflict and protest within the United Kingdom dur…

This article assesses the place of shell shock in the subjective experience of B…

No British government had ever formed or provided for an army of the size requir…

This article briefly surveys the impact of the First World War on the lives of B…

Asquith was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the outbreak of war. He form…

Between February 1915 and the Armistice, Germany conducted three submarine campa…

The "Black and Tans" were British ex-soldiers recruited to reinforce the United …

Following a career as British consul and humanitarian investigator, Roger Caseme…

Michael Collins was a revolutionary leader who rose to become chairman of the Ir…

De Valera was a prominent figure in the Easter 1916 rebellion against British ru…

World War I was not simply a conflict among European states but a global war of …

The campaign for Irish Home Rule lasted from 1870 until 1914. When Home Rule bec…

The "khaki" general election of 1918 was held in Great Britain almost immediatel…

William Orpen, portraitist and subject painter, born in Dublin, was one of the m…

Patrick Pearse was one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in which the Iri…

An Irish-born writer and critic, best known as a playwright, George Bernard Shaw…

This article briefly introduces the suffragettes and their campaign, reflecting …

Soldiers’ attitudes towards the Great War are a controversial issue, as they pro…

The centenary of the First World War revealed palpable anxieties around a loss o…

Total war is a controversial term used in the past by politicians, publicists an…

The end of fighting in 1918 raised hopes for swift and equitable military demobi…

During the entire war, warring powers used the “secret war” to try to break the …

Word War I had a significant impact on the evolution of the European media scene…

This article summarizes and compares the principal arguments and strategies of p…

Reflecting current historiography, this article focuses primarily on Christian c…

This article offers an overview of peacemaking after the First World War from th…

Imperialism shaped almost every facet of international politics from 1898 to 191…

It may surprise us to learn that some sectors of the European public were in fav…

This article explores women’s economic, social, and political responses to the F…