Supplementary reading

General studies of the Irish Revolution 

Aiken, Síobhra. Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War. Newbridge: Irish Academic Press, 2022.

Crowley, John, Donal Ó Drisceoil, and Mike Murphy, eds. Atlas of the Irish Revolution. Cork: Cork University Press, 2017.

Dubois, Claire. L'art comme arme politique: Les combats de Constance Markievicz. Villeneuve-d'Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2024.

Mannion, Patrick, and Fearghal McGarry, eds. The Irish Revolution: A Global History. New York: New York University Press, 2022.

O’Keeffe, Hélène, John Crowley, Donal Ó Drisceoil, John Borgonovo, and Mike Murphy, eds. Atlas of the Irish Civil War. Cork: Cork University Press, 2024.

Writings about Franco-Irish relations

Coquelin, Olivier. L’Irlande en révolutions, entre nationalismes et conservatismes: une histoire politique et sociale (18e-20e siècles). Paris: Éditions Syllepse, 2018.

Joannon, Pierre, and Kevin Whelan, eds. Paris, Capital of Irish Culture: France, Ireland and the Republic, 1798-1916. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017.

Mc Cormack, Bill. Dublin Easter 1916: The French Connection. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2012.

Neville, Grace. ‘The Death of Terence MacSwiney: A French Perspective’. Journal of The Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 106 (2001): 143–66.

Ní Ghearbhuigh, Ailbhe. 'An Fhrainc Iathghlas? Tionchar na Fraince ar Athbheochan na Gaeilge, 1893-1922'. PhD dissertation, University of Galway, 2013. https://doi.org/10.13025/17143.

—. “Never mind the Pagans”: the Anatole France controversy in An Claidheamh Soluis, 1910’. Irish Studies Review 22, no. 1 (2014): 34–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2013.871855

O'Hanlon, Oliver. 'As others saw us: the French grand reporter on the island of Ireland in the 20th century'. PhD dissertation, University College Cork, 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/10468/16485

Ranger, Pierre. La France vue d'Irlande: l'histoire du mythe français de Parnell à l'État libre. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2011.

—. ‘The World in Paris and Ireland too: The French Diplomacy of Sinn Féin, 1919-1921’. Études Irlandaises 36, no. 2 (2011): 39–57. https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesirlandaises.2333

Ranger, Pierre, and Anne Magny. Une révolutionnaire irlandaise en France: Maud Gonne et l'internationale nationaliste, 1887–1914. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020.

Photography during the Irish Revolution

Baylis, Gail. ‘Gender in the Frame: Photography and the Performance of the Nation Narrative in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland’. Irish Studies Review 22, no. 2 (2014): 184–206. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2014.896140

Carville, Justin. ‘Ungovernable Eye: Photography, Colonial Governmentality and Irish Insurgency’. History of Photography 45, no. 3-4 (2021): 217–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2022.2113621

Fitzpatrick, Orla. ‘Countersurveillance, Photography and Revolution in the Irish War of Independence’. History of Photography 45, no. 3-4 (2021): 292–303. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2022.2118452

—. ‘From Mexico to Mayo: Ernie O’Malley, Paul Strand and Photographic Modernism’, In Modern Ireland and Revolution: Ernie O’Malley in Context, edited by Cormac K.H. O’Malley, 121–36. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2016.

McIvor, Jessica. ‘”The Camera Got Through Safely”: Photography and Women's Memory Activism after the Irish Civil War and Spanish Civil War’. Irish Studies Review 32, no. 3 (2024): 379–406. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2024.2373492.

National Library of Ireland. From Turmoil to Truce: Photographs of the War of Independence. Online exhibition. Accessed [2025]. https://www.nli.ie/en/war-of-independence-exhibition.aspx

Ó Ruairc, Pádraig Óg. Revolution: A Photographic History of Revolutionary Ireland, 1913-1923. Cork: The Mercier Press, 2011.

Pichel, Beatriz. Picturing the Western Front. Photography, Practices and Experiences in First World War France. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.


Photography theory

Barthes, Roland. La chambre claire: Note sur la photographie. Paris: Gallimard, 1980.

Butler, Judith. Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? London: Verso, 2009.

Edwards, Elizabeth. Photographs and the Practice of History. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.

Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.