Enduring Ruin

Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution

Justin Dolan Stover

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English

University College Dublin Press
21 February 2024

History of architecture; European history; Social impact of environmental issues

An environmental history of the Irish Revolution.

The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to both natural and human-built landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after independence, presenting an Ireland politically transformed yet physically disfigured. Enduring Ruin examines how and to what degree revolutionary activity degraded, damaged, and destroyed Ireland’s landscapes. The first environmental history of the revolutionary period, it incorporates the roles animals, earth, water, trees, weather, and human-made infrastructure played in directing and absorbing revolutionary violence. It traces the militarization of private and public spaces and how the destruction of monuments renegotiated Ireland’s civic spaces and colonial legacy. Re-evaluating conventional interpretations and introducing new arguments, Enduring Ruin pioneers a new phase in the study of the Irish Revolution.

By: Justin Dolan Stover
Imprint: University College Dublin Press
Country of Publication: Ireland
ISBN: 9781910820834
ISBN 10: 1910820830
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 21 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Justin Dolan Stover is associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of History at Idaho State University.

Reviews for Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution

'Ernie O’Malley’s description of the destruction of the Four Courts as 'duelling orchestras of crashing stone and singing flame' was poetic, but this book does justice to the range of environmental destruction behind such lyricism.' - Diarmaid Ferriter, The Irish Times, January 2023; 'Enduring Ruin is a welcome study in that it departs from the normal discussions around either politics or the metrics of death and violence in quantifying revolutionary activity in Ireland from 1916 to 1923.' - Westmeath Examiner, December 2022.