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For some Dubliners, including many southern Unionists, British ex-servicemen and anti-Treaty republicans, the city became a hostile environment with the City Council and Dublin Metropolitan Police abolished by the new Free State.     Yet, life remained a cycle of grinding poverty for the city’s slum dwellers. The main beneficiary of the chaos was the Catholic Church, which tightened its grip on vital social services with tragic consequences for thousands of the marginalised, while an embattled government was too preoccupied with securing its grip on power to provide for its own citizens.     As in his previous work, the author uncovers unknown and neglected aspects of the Irish revolution in the capital and their impact on the rest of the country.     Praise for Pádraig Yeates’ ‘Dublin at War’ trilogy     ‘A powerful social history … reminds us that for all the headline grabbing events, putting bread on the table was still the most important priority for most’     Professor Diarmaid Ferriter, The Irish Independent     ‘Reminds the reader of how daily life went on side by side with the great events of history. In short, this is an excellent addition to the current literature’     Irish Literary Supplement     ‘An extraordinary body of work’, Keelin Shanley, RTÉ Today Show about Padraig Yeates Dublin at War Trilogy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49520004694289,"sku":"GOR008135825","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0717167267.jpg?v=1751105793"},{"product_id":"city-in-turmoil-book-padraig-yeates-9780717167272","title":"A City in Turmoil","description":"Dublin was the cockpit of the Irish Revolution. It was in the capital that Dáil Éireann convened and built an alternative government to challenge the authority of Dublin Castle; it was where the munitions strike that crippled the British war effort in 1920 began and it was where rival intelligence organisations played out their deadly game of cat and mouse. But it was also a city where ambushes became a daily occurrence and ordinary civilians were caught in the deadly crossfire. Restrictions on travel, military curfews and the threat of internment would ultimately make normal life impossible.     In A City in Turmoil Pádraig Yeates takes up the story from the end of the First World War covered in A City in Wartime. As in his previous work, he uncovers unknown and neglected aspects of the Irish Revolution, including the role that the Bank of Ireland played in keeping the city solvent, the rise of the Municipal Reform Association to challenge the hegemony of Sinn Féin and Labour, how one of Ireland’s leading businessmen started out as a bagman for Michael Collins and how, ultimately, many Dubliners found it easier to sympathise with the fight for the Republic than participate in or pay for it.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49520010330385,"sku":"GOR008074518","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0717167275.jpg?v=1751010204"},{"product_id":"city-in-turmoil-book-padraig-yeates-9780717154654","title":"A City in Turmoil","description":"InA City in TurmoilPadraig Yeates takes up the story from the end of the First World War covered inA City in Wartime.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49553292558609,"sku":"GOR008135824","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52965473583377,"sku":"GOR013493949","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0717154653.jpg?v=1751438093"},{"product_id":"a-city-in-turmoil-dublin-1919-1921-rare-book-padraig-yeates-1727180930dpb","title":"A City in Turmoil: Dublin 1919-1921","description":"2015. 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