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The historian Elaine McFarland has explored Scotland’s Irishmen’s participation in the war effort. In line with this perspective, this chapter further pictures the impact of the Irish community’s involvement and its consequences back home. Whatever the degree of Irish mobilization during the war, Scottish perception of Irish efforts was fundamentally ambivalent. From a local political perspective, this chapter also examines how the war undoubtedly contributed to an accelerated promotion of local Irish figures both on parochial and municipal boards. The Irish developed a sense of local patriotism, compatible with their Irish nationalism.
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E. McFarland (2003) ‘“How the Irish Paid Their Debt”: Irish Catholics in Scotland and Voluntary Enlistment, August 1914–July 1915’, The Scottish Historical Review, LXXXII, pp. 261–84; GE, 6 August 1915.
GE, 13 October 1916; E. McFarland (2003) ‘How the Irish Paid Their Debt’, p. 261.
J. Strong (1919) Education (Scotland) Act, 1918. — with Annotations (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd), pp. 50–7: Section 18: ‘(ii) all teachers appointed to the staff of any such school by the education authority shall in every case be teachers who satisfy the Department as to qualification, and are approved as regards their religious belief and character by representatives of the church or denominational body in whose interest the school has been conducted’.
CE, 3 April 1916. Sinn Fein clubs were mentioned in various sources after the year 1918: in June 1919, the Doctor O’Dwyer club in Coatbridge and the Craob Padraic Pearse club in Greenock were active. (GO, 24 May 1919; GO, 7 June 1919). For a detailed examination of the impact of the Easter Rising in the West of Scotland, see J.M. Agnew (2009) ‘The Impact of Irish Nationalism on Central Scotland, 1898–1939’, Ph.D. thesis, University of Glasgow.
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Vaughan, G. (2013). The Impact of the First World War. In: The ‘Local’ Irish in the West of Scotland, 1851–1921. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137329844_8
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