Gavin Foster

Gavin Foster is Associate Professor in the School of Irish Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. His book, The Irish civil war and society: politics, class, and conflict (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), won the 2015 'James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books …

Downtown Cleveland drew a large number of former IRA comrades.

"Wild geese": IRA emigration and settlement after the Revolution

After the Civil War, thousands of veterans joined the throngs emigrating from Ireland. Where did this "lost legion" go, and how did they fare? Gavin …

History • 23 May

Children being evacuated from the streets around O'Connell Street during the Battle of Dublin

A three minute guide to social class and the Civil War divide

History • 02 Mar

Gavin Foster, filmed at the Irish Civil War National Conference at UCC in June 2022

Wall of Silence: Memory and the Civil War

History • 10 Sep 22

Attendees at the 1922 Dublin Horse Show. Photo: Getty Images

Class warfare: was there a social basis to the Civil War divide?

The victory of the pro-Treaty Free State has been viewed by some as a triumph of bourgeois Ireland over the "men of no property". But …

History • 13 Jun 22

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