Overview
- Provides the first detailed study of Irish recruitment into colonial administrative services after Irish independence in 1922
- Focuses on the Irish involvement in the policing of the British Palestine Mandate, evaluating the Irish contribution to late imperial administration
- Considers the extent to which the sense of Irish identity impacted on the personal and professional experiences of Irish colonial servants
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Seán William Gannon is Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Irish Imperial Service
Book Subtitle: Policing Palestine and Administering the Empire, 1922–1966
Authors: Seán William Gannon
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96394-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96393-8Published: 15 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07185-1Published: 05 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96394-5Published: 24 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 293
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Britain and Ireland, History of the Middle East, International Security Studies