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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 …

"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 Foster explains.
History • 23 May 23

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

History • 02 Mar 23

Wall of Silence: Memory and the Civil War

History • 10 Sep 22

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 what does the Civil War really tell us about social fractures in the early 1920s? Gavin Foster explains.
History • 13 Jun 22

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