(Paperback)

Questioning the orthodox interpretation of evolution rather than revolution in the administration of the State, this book throws light on civil service organization in British-ruled Ireland.

(Hardback)

Presents a history of the Irish civil service and its response to revolutionary changes in the State. This book gives an introduction of the third Home Rule bill in 1912. It examines the response of the civil service to the threat of partition, World War, the emergence of the revolutionary forces of Dail Eireann and the IRA.