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Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations v Tables xi A Note on Language xiii Introduction 1 I Cork Political Life prior to Easter 1916 6 II Cork and the First World War, 1914 to Easter 1916 25 III The Rising and After 40 IV ‘Thoughtless Young People’ and the Cork City Riots of 1917 59 V The Republican Front: Sinn Féin, the IRB, and the Irish Volunteers in 1917 74 VI Twilight of the Mollies: The Decline of the Irish 96 Party in 1917 VII Cork Women, American Sailors and Catholic Vigilantes, 1917–18 120 VIII Gender, Nationalism and Cork Cumann na mBan, 1916–1918 139 IX Cork Labour, Economy and the ITGWU 154 X Preventing Another Black ’47: The Cork People’s Food Committee, 1917–18 168 XI Insurrection: The 1918 Conscription Crisis 186 XII The Victory of Sinn Féin: The 1918 General Election 213 Conclusion 230 Bibliography 235 Notes and References 249 Index 317 vii ...

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