TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marie-Violaine Louvet
PY  - 2024
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1662-9094
SN  - 9781803740485
TI  - The Irish Against the War
T2  - Postcolonial Identity & Political Activism in Contemporary Ireland
DO  - 10.3726/b20333
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1290948
N2  - The purpose of the book is to explore and explicate the origins, evolution and mobilisation of anti-war activism in Ireland from the 1950s. The author applies postcolonial critical perspectives alongside social movement theory to define the multifaceted Irish approach to different international conflicts from the creation of the Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (1958) to the current war in Ukraine. Meticulously researched, the chapters develop an analysis of the anti-war activism in Ireland, be it at a local, national or supranational level, from political parties, trade unions and civil associations. The book casts light on the factors that structure the Irish domestication of the conflicts under study, be they historical and connected to senses of national identity in the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, or strategic, diplomatic and religious.
KW  - Anti-war activism, Ireland, Iraq War, Afghanistan, Kosovo, nuclear disarmament, Gulf War, Vietnam War, East Timor, postcolonialism, transnational solidarity
LA  - English
ER  -