The Irish Imperial Service

Policing Palestine and Administering the Empire, 1922-1966
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-319-96393-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 293 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 513 g

Reihe: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

This book explores Irish participation in the British imperial project after ‘Southern’ Ireland’s independence in 1922. Building on a detailed study of the Irish contribution to the policing of the Palestine Mandate, it examines Irish imperial servants’ twentieth-century transnational careers, and assesses the influence of their Irish identities on their experience at the colonial interface. The factors which informed Irish enlistment in Palestine’s police forces are examined, and the impact of Irishness on the personal perspectives and professional lives of Irish Palestine policemen is assessed. Irish policing in Palestine is placed within the broader tradition of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC)-conducted imperial police service inaugurated in the mid-nineteenth century, and the RIC’s transnational influence on twentieth-century British colonial policing is evaluated. The wider tradition of Irish imperial service, of which policing formed part, is then explored, with particularfocus on British Colonial Service recruitment in post-revolutionary Ireland and twentieth-century Irish-imperial identities.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gannon, Seán William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. ‘Our Irish Constabulary’: The British Palestine Gendarmerie, 1922-26.- 3. ‘A Strong Seasoning of Irishmen’: the British Palestine Police, 1926-48.- 4. Palestine ‘from the Aspect of Irishness’.- 5. Irish Models and Irishmen: Irish Imperial Policing in the Twentieth Century.- 6. Colonial Service Recruitment in Independent Ireland.- 7. Irishness and Empire in the Twentieth Century.- 8. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Seán William Gannon is Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.