“Aidan Beatty’s insightful and compelling monograph … makes bold strides in addressing the acknowledged lack of investigations into gender and, more specifically, masculinities in modern Irish history. … This is a history that will be of great interest to scholars of gender and sexuality, but it is also a good story well told for those with broader interests in Ireland’s past, particularly during those ever-important decades that defined Ireland’s manly sense of self for the rest of the twentieth century.” (Jane McGaughey, The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 42, 2019)“This volume will find appreciative readers not only within Irish and Zionist studies, but in fields more broadly concerned with questions of nationalism and gender. For those concerned with the practical value of work on history, this book's publication is all the more important when one considers not only the centenary of the Irish revolutionary period, butmore significantly, the rise of sexist nationalism around the globe.” (Charles Clements, breac.nd.edu, October, 2017)
