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Notes and References INTRODUCTION 1 D.L. Kelleher, Cork’s Own Town (Cork: Guy & Co. Ltd, 1920), Munster Printing Collection (MP), Boole Library, University College Cork (UCC). 2 Cork Harbour Commission Meeting Minutes, 5 September 1921, Port of Cork Archives (PCA). 3 Cork Harbour Commission Meeting Minutes, 7 September 1921. 4 David Fitzpatrick (ed.), Ireland and the First World War (Dublin: Trinity History Workshop, 1986). 5 Especially noteworthy are works by Keith Jeffery, Joanna Bourke, Nuala Johnson, Timothy Bowmen, Terence Denman, Adrian Gregory, Senia Paseta and Jerome aan de Wiel. 6 George Boyce, The Revolution in Ireland (London: Macmillan Press, 1988), p. 13. 7 Adrian Gregory and Senia Paseta (eds), Ireland and the Great War: A War to Unite Us All? (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), p. 2. 8 Ben Novick, Conceiving Revolution: Irish Nationalist Propaganda During the First World War (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001), p. 18. 9 Charles Townshend, ‘British Policy in Ireland, 1906–1921’, pp. 173–92, in George Boyce (ed.), The Revolution in Ireland, 1879–1923 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988). 10 Marie Coleman, County Longford and the Irish Revolution, 1910–1923 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2003); Fergus Campbell, Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland, 1891–1921 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005); Joost Augusteijn, From Public Defiance to Guerrilla Warfare: The Experience of Ordinary Volunteers in the Irish War of Independence, 1916–1921 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1996); Peter Hart, The IRA and Its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916–1923 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998); John O’Callaghan, Revolutionary Limerick: The Republican Campaign for Independence in Limerick, 1913–1921 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2010). 11 Anne Dolan, Commemorating the Irish Civil War: History and Memory, 1923–2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003); Patrick Maume, The Long Gestation: Irish Nationalist Life, 1891–1918 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1999); Michael Wheatley, Nationalism and the Irish Party, Provincial Ireland, 1910–1916 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005); Ferghal McGarry, The Rising (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). 12 See Thomas Hennessey, Dividing Ireland: World War One and Partition (London: Routledge, 1998); Charles Townshend, Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion (Chicago: Ivan Dee, 2006); Nuala Johnson, Ireland, the Great War and the Geography of Remembrance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003); and Novick, Conceiving Revolution. 13 John Borgonovo (ed.), Florence and Josephine O’Donoghue’s War of Independence (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006), p. ix. 14 Townshend, ‘British Policy in Ireland’, p. 187. 249 15 Four of Hart’s chapters exclusively deal with the Bandon Valley, while north Cork and east Cork rarely feature in the work. City events sometimes appear as evidence for broader points, but with little in-depth exploration. 16 Gerry White and Brendan O’Shea, Baptised in Blood: The Formation of the Cork Brigade of the Irish Volunteers, 1913–1916 (Cork: Mercier Press, 2005). 17 John Horne (ed.), State, Society and Mobilisation in Europe during the First World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 114–20, 145, 151, 155, 158–9, 168–9, 173, 182, 195–211, 228–9. 18 Ibid., p. 7. CHAPTER I: CORK POLITICAL LIFE PRIOR TO EASTER 1916 1 Bureau of Military History (BMH) Witness Statement (WS) 869, Commandant P.J. Murphy, National Archives (NA), Dublin (hereafter WS). 2 From the 1911 Census of Ireland. The 1916 Guy’s Directory uses the 1911 Census to quantify the Cork City Parliamentary Borough (encompassing the suburbs) at 102,274. 3 Andrew Bielenberg, Cork’s Industrial Revolution, 1780–1880: Development or Decline? (Cork: Cork University Press, 1991); Maura Murphy, ‘The Economic and Social Structure of Nineteenth Century Cork’, in David Harkness and Mary O’Dowd, The Town in Ireland (Belfast: Appletree Press, 1981), pp. 125–54; John B. O’Brien, ‘Population, Politics and Society in Cork, 1780–1900’, in Cornelius Buttimer and Patrick O’Flanagan (eds), Cork: History and Society. Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County (Dublin: Geography Publications, 1993), pp. 699–720. 4 Murphy, ‘The Economic and Social Structure of Nineteenth-Century Cork’, pp. 127, 129, 132; Maura Cronin, ‘Work and Workers in Cork City and County, 1800–1900’, in Buttimer and O’Flanagan, Cork: History and Society, pp. 699–720. 5 See Cronin, ‘Work and Workers in Cork City and County’. 6 For further details see Diarmuid Ó Drisceoil and Donal Ó Drisceoil, The History of Lady’s Well Brewery (Cork: Murphy’s Brewery, 1997); and Serving the City: The Story of the English Market (Cork: The Collins Press, 2005). See also Stephen McQuay Reddick, ‘Political and Industrial Labour in Cork, 1899–1914...

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