ABSTRACT
This chapter returns to Dublin, during the 1916 Rising, to explore key geographic themes of employment of space, socio-political bordering practices, and nationalist narratives. It examines territoriality and nationalism as it recalls the central political and geographic tenets of the rebellion against British rule that transpired in 1916. It contextualizes this relatively small and poorly executed Rising, entangled within the charged milieu of WWI and the subsequent Irish War of Independence/Anglo-Irish War. The scope of this chapter extends beyond these concentrated eruptions of violence to include the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition as part of a larger transformative period that repositioned geopolitical relations between Ireland and the British state.
