The purpose of the book is to explore and explicate the origins, evolution and mobilisation of anti-war activism in Ireland from the 1950s. The author applies postcolonial critical perspectives alongside social movement theory to define the multifaceted Irish approach to different international conflicts from the creation of the Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (1958) to the current war in Ukraine. Meticulously researched, the chapters develop an analysis of the anti-war activism in Ireland, be it at a local, national or supranational level, from political parties, trade unions and civil associations. The book casts light on the factors that structure the Irish domestication of the conflicts under study, be they historical and connected to senses of national identity in the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, or strategic, diplomatic and religious.

Marie-Violaine Louvet is a Senior Lecturer at Toulouse Jean Jaurès University, France. Her research focuses on Ireland and transnational solidarity movements in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is the author of Civil Society, Post-Colonialism and Transnational Solidarity: The Irish and the Middle East Conflict (2016).

Contents Introduction Chapter 1: A Conceptual Framework for the Study of the Irish Anti-War Movements Chapter 2: Campaigning for Nuclear Disarmament: The Irish CND Chapter 3: Protesting against the Vietnam War in Ireland Chapter 4: The Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: a Rebirth Chapter 5: Irish Activism Against the Gulf War (1990-1991) Chapter 6: East Timor: Lobbying the Irish Government for Peace (1990s) Chapter 7: Opposing the Kosovo War (1999) Chapter 8: The Afghanistan War and the Birth of the Irish Anti-War Movement Chapter 9: The 2003 Iraq War & Irish Politics Chapter 10: Irish Civil Society mobilized against the 2003 Iraq War Chapter 11: Epilogue Concluding remarks