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This book focuses on how Irish remembrance of the First World War impacted the emerging Irish identity in the postcolonial Irish Free State. While all combatants of the “war to end all wars” commemorated the war, Irish memorial efforts were fraught with debate over Irish identity and politics that frequently resulted in violence against commemorators and World War I veterans. The book examines the Flanders poppy, the Victory and Armistice Day parades, the National War Memorial, church memorials, and private remembrances. Highlighting the links between war, memory, empire and decolonization, it ultimately argues that the Great War, its commemorations, and veterans retained political potency between 1914 and 1937 and were a powerful part of early Free State life. .

Great Britain-History. --- Historiography. --- Imperialism. --- Civilization-History. --- Military history. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- Memory Studies. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- Cultural History. --- History of Military. --- Military historiography --- Military history --- Wars --- Historiography --- History --- Naval history --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Great Britain—History. --- Civilization—History.

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Taken collectively, the chapters in New Perspectives on the First World War: Beyond No Man’s Land not only illuminate pieces of the Great War that remain in the shadow of the broader narratives, but also, and more importantly, foster new perspectives, pose distinct questions, and suggest fresh directions from which future work might emerge. Transnational approaches, the cultural and environmental history of war, and gender’s ubiquitous but heretofore marginalized role in the larger conflict together merit fresh research and careful new interpretation. Mandy Link is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Tyler, USA. She published Remembrance of the Great War in the Irish Free State, 1914-1937: Specters of Empire with Palgrave in 2019. Matthew M. Stith is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Tyler, USA. He is the author or editor of three books including Extreme Civil War: Guerrilla Warfare, Environment, and Race on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier (2016) and, as co-editor, Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam War (2019).

World War, 1914-1918. --- Military history. --- Human ecology --- World history. --- Women --- Military History. --- Environmental History. --- World History, Global and Transnational History. --- Women's History / History of Gender. --- History.