id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt d791sf28d8s Gavin Maxwell Foster The Social Structures and Cultural Politics of the Irish Civil War 2010 .txt text/plain 326 9 40 It argues that though the thorny political dilemma provoked by the controversial Anglo-Irish Treaty was the initial cause of the disastrous rupture in the Sinn FÌ©in movement, the political differences between the pro- and anti-Treaty camps reflected, drew upon, and became increasingly entwined with their divergent social outlooks, mentalities and material interests. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, a chapter demonstrates that pro- and anti-Treaty discourses åÐ particularly in terms of how the two sides perceived each other åÐ were freighted with powerful class and social status resonances. cache/d791sf28d8s.txt txt/d791sf28d8s.txt