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9781785370526 English 1785370529 In this sequel to his bestselling 'Easter Rising 1916: The Trials', Seán Enright puts the great legal cases of the period into context with exacting clarity, including the Mac Curtain Inquest, the trials of MacSwiney, Markievicz, Maher and Foley, the Bloody Sunday courts martial and the trials under martial law. Following the executions of the 1916 leaders, a new government policy of conciliation was attempted but quickly faltered. Rebel prisoners were released, the Great War reached its climax, and Ireland was gripped by the conscription crisis and subsequent resentment over exclusion from the Versailles Peace Conference. It was in this atmosphere that revolution took hold. Raids and reprisals became widespread, dozens of police barracks were raided and over 90 courthouses were burned down. Under such pressures, Westminster abandoned jury trial in favor of trial by court martial, and martial law was introduced in the south and west. 'After the Rising' provides a vibrant account of Ireland's slow descent into turmoil as the law unravelled and the country engaged in a new and shocking conflict. [Subject: Irish History, Military History, Legal History], This pioneering book traces the violent conflict of the 1916-1921 era in Ireland through the lens of the British legal system, highlighting how major trials and courts martial ran in tandem with growing political tensions in the aftermath of the Easter Rising. Continuing his story where Easter Rising 1916: The Trials ended, legal historian Sean Enright masterfully analyses the causes of the Rising, how it evolved into the War of Independence and lead in turn to the collapse of the justice system by January 1920. The establishment of trial by courts martial and Martial Law by the end of that year was unimaginable at this time within the British Empire, and Enright excels in unravelling the fascinating and unsettling significance of these developments, drawing startling conclusions about the limits of the judicial system under extreme duress. The high-profile trials of Roger Casement, Constance Markiewicz, Eoin MacNeill and the Bloody Sunday participants amongst others, are explored along with those of lesser known republicans, presenting an intriguing insight into the nature and outcomes of individual cases and how their relative fame or obscurity determined proceedings. In every instance, Enright sheds new light on that most controversial intersection in which law and morality were both called into question in a dramatic way during these most turbulent years.
9781785370526 English 1785370529 In this sequel to his bestselling 'Easter Rising 1916: The Trials', Seán Enright puts the great legal cases of the period into context with exacting clarity, including the Mac Curtain Inquest, the trials of MacSwiney, Markievicz, Maher and Foley, the Bloody Sunday courts martial and the trials under martial law. Following the executions of the 1916 leaders, a new government policy of conciliation was attempted but quickly faltered. Rebel prisoners were released, the Great War reached its climax, and Ireland was gripped by the conscription crisis and subsequent resentment over exclusion from the Versailles Peace Conference. It was in this atmosphere that revolution took hold. Raids and reprisals became widespread, dozens of police barracks were raided and over 90 courthouses were burned down. Under such pressures, Westminster abandoned jury trial in favor of trial by court martial, and martial law was introduced in the south and west. 'After the Rising' provides a vibrant account of Ireland's slow descent into turmoil as the law unravelled and the country engaged in a new and shocking conflict. [Subject: Irish History, Military History, Legal History], This pioneering book traces the violent conflict of the 1916-1921 era in Ireland through the lens of the British legal system, highlighting how major trials and courts martial ran in tandem with growing political tensions in the aftermath of the Easter Rising. Continuing his story where Easter Rising 1916: The Trials ended, legal historian Sean Enright masterfully analyses the causes of the Rising, how it evolved into the War of Independence and lead in turn to the collapse of the justice system by January 1920. The establishment of trial by courts martial and Martial Law by the end of that year was unimaginable at this time within the British Empire, and Enright excels in unravelling the fascinating and unsettling significance of these developments, drawing startling conclusions about the limits of the judicial system under extreme duress. The high-profile trials of Roger Casement, Constance Markiewicz, Eoin MacNeill and the Bloody Sunday participants amongst others, are explored along with those of lesser known republicans, presenting an intriguing insight into the nature and outcomes of individual cases and how their relative fame or obscurity determined proceedings. In every instance, Enright sheds new light on that most controversial intersection in which law and morality were both called into question in a dramatic way during these most turbulent years.