A City in Turmoil: Dublin 1919-1921 Book

Acknowledgments ix

List of Abbreviations xi

1 A Victory Ball, 'a regular little arsenal' and a midnight visit to detective headquarters 1

2 'I had no revolver myself and I am glad now… as I might have shot some of them' 32

3 'One half of the population is wrong and the other isn't' 63

4 'On Friday evenings God Save the King will NOT be played' 90

5 'Not the Empire but the Irish Republic' 116

6 'We cannot have a one sided war' 146

7 'That night I should have understood, and forgiven, any act of reprisal by our men' 184

8 'The Black and Tan guards are decent to us, and we thought we might as well order in a drink for them' 214

9 'Probably the stupidest tiling the Sinn Fein ever did' 246

10 ?In the evening the Tricolour was everywhere … not in the mean streets only but on proud houses in professional quarters' 282

Notes 297

Select Bibliography 320

Index 326