Electioneering and Propaganda in Ireland, 1917-21: Votes, Violence and Victory

by Elaine Callinan

This book provides an illuminating and unique analysis of the political rivalry between all the major parties during Ireland's revolutionary years. Politicians, propagandists, and their voluntary supporters instigated forceful election campaigns to promote ideologies that aimed to alter or imbed their principles into the minds of ordinary people. The goal was victory at the ballot box during the by-elections, general elections, and local government...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846828708
• ISBN13: 9781846828706
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Length: 272 Pages