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DERRY, IRISH REVOLUTION SERIES:Layout 1 17/10/2018 21:03 Page i DERRY DERRY, IRISH REVOLUTION SERIES:Layout 1 17/10/2018 21:03 Page ii DERRY, IRISH REVOLUTION SERIES:Layout 1 17/10/2018 21:03 Page iii Derry The Irish Revolution, ‒ Adrian Grant FOUR COURTS PRESS DERRY, IRISH REVOLUTION SERIES:Layout 1 17/10/2018 21:03 Page iv Set in . on . point Ehrhardt for FOUR COURT S P R E S S LTD  Malpas Street, Dublin , Ireland www.fourcourtspress.ie and in North America for FOUR COURT S P R E S S c/o IPG,  N. Franklin St, Chicago, IL . © Adrian Grant and Four Courts Press  A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-1-84682-659-7 (paper) ISBN 978-1-84682-779-2 (ebook) All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book. Printed in England by TJ International, Padstow, Cornwall. DERRY, IRISH REVOLUTION SERIES:Layout 1 17/10/2018 21:03 Page v Contents LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi The Irish Revolution, – series xiii  Derry city and county in    Saving the Empire by all means necessary: unionism, –   ‘The majority of Ulster is in favour of home rule’: nationalism, –   ‘The old party bitterness is still strong’: from the First World War to the Easter Rising, –   ‘Giving constitutionalism a last chance’, –   ‘Like a town on the Western Front’, –   Truce and Treaty: Derry in    Partition consolidated, –   Derry in   NOTES  SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY  INDEX  DERRY, IRISH REVOLUTION SERIES:Layout 1 17/10/2018 21:03 Page vi DERRY, IRISH REVOLUTION SERIES:Layout 1 17/10/2018 21:03 Page vii Illustrations PLATES  IVF on parade in Celtic Park, Derry, June .  Captain Jack White, Commander Charles McGlinchey and Colonel Maurice Moore at IVF parade, Celtic Park, Derry, June .  Infirm voter being helped to polling station, Derry by-election, January .  Infirm voter being helped to polling station, Derry by-election, January .  Crowd gathered outside Bishop Street courthouse at announcement of Derry by-election result, January .  The camp of the nd Battalion, North Derry UVF at Magilligan, July .  UVF members arriving at Magilligan, July .  Bridge Street, Garvagh, decorated for visit of Edward Carson,  April .  Derry city UVF members marching to war, September .  Ambulance donated to the war effort by the ‘Citizens of Londonderry’, .  Group photograph, including James McCarron, taken at the  Irish Trade Union Congress meeting in Waterford.  Prominent Unionist politician Robert N. Anderson visiting war hospital supply depot, .  David Cleghorn Hogg, Liberal MP for Londonderry City, –.  Charles McHugh, Roman Catholic bishop of Derry, –.  Funeral of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, Glasvevin Cemetery,  August . Derry Volunteers in attendance.  Derry Jail, Bishop Street.  Joseph O’Doherty, prominent Derry republican and SF TD.  The O’Doherty siblings of Creggan Street, Derry.  Séamus Cavanagh, O/C Derry city IVF/IRA (–), and family.  Patrick Shiels, O/C Derry city IRA (–), and family.  Apprentice Boys of Derry parade at Guildhall Square, Derry,  August .  Lecky Road RIC Barracks.  Nationalist and SF members of Londonderry Corporation, .  British army troops preparing artillery outside Derry city, June .  Sandbags barricading the Fountain, Derry, . vii DERRY, IRISH REVOLUTION SERIES:Layout 1 17/10/2018 21:03 Page viii viii Illustrations  Sandbags outside the Hibernian Bank, Shipquay Street, Derry, .  British troops mounting an armoured vehicle at Bishop’s Gate, Derry, June .  St Columb’s College, Bishop Street, Derry.  Hugh C. O’Doherty, first nationalist mayor of Derry.  Charles ‘Nomad’ McGuinness, adventurer, gun-runner and Derry IRA member.  Peadar O’Donnell, trade union organizer and IRA officer.  Elisabeth ‘Lizzie’ Doherty, Derry city Cumann na mBan.  Tom Morris, O/C nd Northern Division IRA, .  Members of the nd Northern Division IRA at the Curragh, County Kildare, during the Civil War.  Mary Ellen Kavanagh, killed in the crossfire at Buncrana bank raid,  May . Credits Illustrations , : © Derry City and Strabane District Council; –: Belfast Telegraph; –: Irish Life; , –, , , : © Magee Community Collection, Ulster University; : James McCarron; : St Columb’s College, Derry; –, : National Library of Ireland; , : Brian Lacey; : Colm Toland; : Patrick Collins; , : ‘Derry of the Past’ Facebook page; : Derry Journal; : London Illustrated News; : O’Doherty family, Buncrana; : web.archive.org; : Emmet O’Connor; –: Cardinal Ó Fiaich Library and Archive; : Pa Deeney. MAPS  Places mentioned in the text xiv  Derry city street map   Local government divisions   Parliamentary constituencies pre-   Distribution of Crown forces   IRA divisions in   DERRY, IRISH REVOLUTION SERIES:Layout 1 17/10/2018 21:03 Page ix Abbreviations ABOD ApprenticeBoysofDerry AOH(BoE) AncientOrderofHibernians(BoardofErin) AOH(IAA) AncientOrderofHibernians(Irish-AmericanAlliance) ASTT AmalgamatedSocietyofTailorsandTailoresses ASU ActiveServiceUnit BMH BureauofMilitaryHistory BNL BelfastNewsletter CAB CabinetRecords,TNA CI CountyInspector,RIC/RUC CMA CompetentMilitaryAuthority CO ColonialOffice,TNA CÓFLA CardinalTomásÓFiaichMemorialLibraryandArchive,Armagh DCSDCA DerryCityandStrabaneDistrictCouncilArchives DÉ DáilÉireann,NAI DI DistrictInspector,RIC/RUC DIB DictionaryofIrishbiography DJ DerryJournal DORA DefenceoftheRealmAct DP DerryPeopleandDonegalNews DT DepartmentoftheTaoiseach FIN Finance,PRONI FJ Freeman’sJournal GAA GaelicAthleticAssociation GHQ GeneralHeadquarters GNR GreatNorthernRailway GOC GeneralOfficerCommanding GPO GeneralPostOffice HA HomeAffairs,PRONI HC HouseofCommons HO HomeOffice,TNA ICA IrishCitizenArmy IFS IrishFreeState IG InspectorGeneral,RIC IHS IrishHistoricalStudies IMA IrishMilitaryArchives INAA IrishNationalAidAssociation INAVDF IrishNationalAidAssociationandVolunteerDependants’Fund INL IrishNationLeague IPP IrishParliamentaryParty IRA IrishRepublicanArmy IRB IrishRepublicanBrotherhood ITGWU IrishTransportandGeneralWorkers’Union ITUC IrishTradeUnionCongress IVF IrishVolunteerForce IWM ImperialWarMuseum,London KOYLI King’sOwnYorkshireLightInfantry ix

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