List ofcontributors Foreword byMichael D. Higgins Acknowledgements Introduction S ECTION 1 Before the War Chapter 1 The Treaty andthe Irish Civil War: British perspectives Heather Jones Case Study -The Treaty Debates and the Irish Civil War Liam Weeks andMícheál Ó Fathartaigh Arthur Griffith Owen McGee Case Study -Military Dress and the Irish Civil War Lisa Godson Disbandment ofthe Royal Irish Constabulary Brian Hughes S ECTION 2 The War in theProvinces Chapter 2 The Irish CivilWar in Provincial Ireland: Landscapes, communities and localised conflict John Borgonovo The ''Sliabh namBan'' Armoured Car Niall Murray Case Study -Graffiti at Ash Hill Towers Aidan Harte,Niall Murray and Joanna Brück Moore Hall,County Mayo John Crowley Case Study - ''SmallHouse'' Burnings during the Irish Civil War: A County Kilkenny case study Eoin SwithinWalsh Case Study -Tormore: The strategic use of a cave dugout during Sligo''s Civil War Robert Mulraney,Marion Dowd and James Bonsall Liam Lynch Gerard Shannon Chapter 3 Civil Confictin Ireland, 1922-3: Political violence and the consolidation of NorthernIreland Adrian Grant Frank Aiken andthe Breakout from Dundalk Gaol Bryce Evans andRory O''Dwyer Case Study -Protestants and the Irish Civil War Conor Morrissey S ECTION 3 Labour, Land andEveryday Life Chapter 4 ''What the helldo they want a republic for?'' Labour, the left and the Irish Civil War Emmet O''Connor Case Study -Agrarian Unrest in Civil War Ireland Heather Laird The PostalStrike, 1922 Donal ÓDrisceoil Case Study -Everyday Life in Dublin during the Irish Civil War Pádraig Yeates S ECTION 4 Propaganda andLegitimisation Chapter 5 IrregularsVersus Slave Staters: Propaganda, censorship and the Irish Civil War Donal ÓDrisceoil The Cartoon War Donal ÓDrisceoil Case Study -Songs of the Irish Civil War Terry Moylan ConstructingIdentity in the Fledgling State John Crowley Case Study -Parliamentary Politics and the Experience of Dáil Éireann during the IrishCivil War Gary Murphy Case Study -The 1923 Land Act Terence Dooley S ECTION 5 The Dead Chapter 6 Death andKilling in the Irish Civil War Andy Bielenbergand John Dorney with Hélène O''Keeffe Case Study -The Executions Policy Seán Enright PortobelloBarracks Banner Brian Crowley Case Study -The Children and Youth of the Irish Civil War Sarah-AnneBuckley and Linda Connolly S ECTION 6 Gender, Povertyand Religion Chapter 7 The Irish CivilWar: Family life, gender and loss LindseyEarner-Byrne Case Study -Violence against Women during the Irish Civil War Linda Connolly Cumann naSaoirse John Borgonovo Case Study -Poor Law Reform in Revolutionary and Independent Ireland Donnacha SeánLucey The IrishBishops'' Pastoral Letter, 10 October 1922 Gabriel Doherty S ECTION 7 Imprisonment Chapter 8 Graffiti andGeographies of the Women of Kilmainham Gaol during the Irish Civil War Laura McAtackney Case Study -Irish Civil War Imprisonment, Humanitarianism and the Red Cross Lia Brazil The PrisonAutograph Book of Seán Sharkey John Crowley Case Study - ''Freedomor the Grave'': The mass hunger strike of October-November 1923 Hélène O''Keeffe