Issues raised in third volume of historical series are at core of concerns still with us today
The great value of Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives and its predecessors is the innovative and meticulous use of visual imagery. Illustration: Paul ScottThe Atlas of the Irish Civil War is the third in a series of historical atlases produced by editors based in. Many households in Ireland and abroad are adorned by the previous two – the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine 1845-52, published in 2012, and the Atlas of the Irish Revolution, published in 2017.
These are important words, which reflect on the narrowness of militaristic nationalism, its similarity to imperial repression, and its undoubted authoritarian tendencies. The issues raised in this volume are at the core of concerns still with us today: democratic legitimacy; authoritarian tendencies; propaganda; divided and bitter discourse; gender; class; the land issue; ordinary crime; sexual violence; death, injury, bereavement and trauma; poverty; and global connections and relationships.
He describes one of the most interesting aspects of the Act: “It culminated in the transfer of all tenanted lands from landlord to tenant ... and the almost complete acquisition of demesne and untenanted lands for redistribution in order to tackle congestion. It therefore initiated a social engineering project of historic magnitude ... including the migration of thousands of families from congested areas in the west to new farms in the east and midlands.
And so on. The great value of this Atlas and its predecessors is the innovative and meticulous use of visual imagery – maps, photographs, archival documents, cartoons, proclamations, and much more – and their careful explication, to help us see things in a new and complicated way. These beguiling captions are almost a parallel text, aided by the magnetic lure of pictures, which automatically draw the eye.
From this we get a picture of ill-trained National Army recruits with access to plenty of weapons dying as a result of ignorance or carelessness with regard to those weapons and explosives, and motor accidents, still a significant cause of death today. We also see that the state exercised its power in sinister ways when it came to fatal treatment of prisoners, and of course the infamous executions policy, ably dissected in this section by Sean Enright.
Let us not be subject to the tyranny of anniversaries; all too often, we have intense interest in a particular period – 1798, the Great Famine – followed by amnesia as we move on to the next anniversary for which funding is made available. There are many references in this impressive book to the necessity for further research; let’s not stop looking at this crucial period because more than 100 years have passed.
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