Dublin 1916

Dublin 1916
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 280
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0674036336
ISBN-13 : 9780674036338
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Dublin 1916 by : Clair Wills

On Easter Monday 1916, a disciplined group of Irish Volunteers seized the city's General Post Office in what would become the defining act of rebellion against British rule. This book unravels the events in and around the GPO during the Easter Rising of 1916, revealing the twists and turns that the myth of the GPO has undergone in the last century.

The Easter Rising

The Easter Rising
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Publisher : O'Brien Press
Total Pages : 141
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ISBN-10 : 086278638X
ISBN-13 : 9780862786380
Rating : 4/5 (8X Downloads)

Synopsis The Easter Rising by : Conor Kostick

A vivid and entertaining guide to the events and locations of the Easter 1916 Rising.Defying all the odds 1600 men, women and children went out on 24 April, Easter Monday, 1916 to fight for an independent Ireland. The battle raged for six days and resulted in the destruction of many parts of Dublin city.The bloody executions of the leaders by the British after the Rising awakened a generation to the cause of Irish freedom.Vividly illustrated, this book takes you through the battle-torn streets of Dublin. Hear the sounds, smell the gunpowser and meet the main players, as the complexities of this dramatic episode in Irish history are explained in an accessible and concise fashion.

Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916

Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916
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Publisher : SteinerBooks
Total Pages : 347
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ISBN-10 : 9781584205418
ISBN-13 : 1584205415
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916 by : William Irwin Thompson

We know from our literary histories that there was a movement called the Irish Literary Renaissance, and that Yeats was at its head. We know from our political histories that there is now a Republic of Ireland because of a nationalistic movement that, militarily, began with the insurrection of Easter Week, 1916. But what do these two movements have to do with one another?... Because I came to history with literary eyes, I could not help seeing history in terms and shapes of imaginative experience. Thus Movement, Myth, and Image came to be the way in which the nature of the insurrection appeared to me. This method of analyzing historical event as if it were a work of art is not altogether as inappropriate as it might seem when the historical event happens to be a revolution. The Irish revolutionaries lived as if they were in a work of art, and this inability to tell the difference between sober reality and the realm of imagination is perhaps one very important characteristic of a revolutionary. The tragedy of actuality comes from the fact that when, in a revolution, history is made momentarily into a work of art, human beings become the material that must be ordered, molded, or twisted into shape. (from the preface)

Rebels

Rebels
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Publisher : Ballantine Books
Total Pages : 756
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307422941
ISBN-13 : 0307422941
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Rebels by : Peter De Rosa

"A WORK OF GREAT DRAMATIC POWER climaxing in the final hundred pages where he writes a full, searing narrative of the patriot leaders' last days . . . It's powerful stuff." --The Sunday Press (Ireland) On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it. Crack British troops killed and wounded hundreds of the rebels in the week of fighting, and British artillery shells left Dublin's city center in ruins. But the Rising of 1916 was not in vain. The short-lived insurrection and the subsequent executions of sixteen rebel leaders galvanized the Irish people. The overthrow of seven centuries of British rule in Ireland began on Easter Monday, 1916. In Rebels, Peter de Rosa, author of the bestselling Vicars of Christ, tells the story of the 1916 Rising in all its terror and beauty. With the dramatic flair of a novelist and the scrupulous accuracy of a professional historian, de Rosa brings to life the people, passions, politics, and repercussions of this historic event.

Dublin's Great Wars

Dublin's Great Wars
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 488
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781108611428
ISBN-13 : 1108611427
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Dublin's Great Wars by : Richard S. Grayson

The story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the Irish Revolution.

A Walk Through Rebel Dublin 1916

A Walk Through Rebel Dublin 1916
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Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Total Pages : 230
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781856357333
ISBN-13 : 1856357333
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis A Walk Through Rebel Dublin 1916 by : Mick O'Farrell

A Walk Through Rebel Dublin 1916 is a comprehensively illustrated guide to the Rising of Easter Week 1916, based on the significant locations of the rebellion. Dealing separately with thirty buildings and sites throughout the city – including the GPO, Liberty Hall, Trinity College, the Four Courts and Dublin Castle – the author provides a brief, fascinating history of the events and personalities that dominated these locations during Easter Week. A contemporary photograph of each location is juxtaposed with a photograph of the building or streetscape as it looks today. While some dramatic changes have taken place in the architecture of Dublin over the course of the twentieth century, there is much that has remained unaltered, as these images will testify. A Walk Through Rebel Dublin 1916 can be read and enjoyed without visiting the locations featured, but the reader is encouraged to walk the streets of Dublin, book in hand, to get a vivid sense of some of the most dramatic episodes in Ireland's history.

1916: The Rising Handbook

1916: The Rising Handbook
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Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Total Pages : 266
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781847178480
ISBN-13 : 1847178480
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis 1916: The Rising Handbook by : Lorcan Collins

A handbook to the events and locations of the Easter 1916 Rising. There are so many different versions of the story of Easter Week 1916. Lorcan Collins, an acknowledged expert on the subject and founder of the 1916 Rebellion Walking Tour, decided that it was time to put together a truthful and factually correct reference book in one handy volume. This '1916 bible' will be invaluable to anyone with an interest in recent Irish history who wants to separate the facts from the fiction. 1916: The Rising Handbook offers bite-sized details about the organisations involved in the Rising, the positions occupied during Easter week, the weapons the rebels and army used, the documents that were passed around, and the speeches that were given. It details the women who came out to fight and profiles the sixteen executed leaders, as well as looking at the rebellion outside of Dublin. It also utilises three different resources to give the most comprehensive list yet of all of those involved in the Rising. If a relative of yours fought during Easter 1916, you'll find their name in here.

Children of the Rising

Children of the Rising
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Publisher : Hachette Ireland
Total Pages : 415
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ISBN-10 : 9781473617049
ISBN-13 : 1473617049
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Children of the Rising by : Joe Duffy

Children of the Rising is the first ever account of the young lives violently lost during the week of the 1916 Rising: long-forgotten and never commemorated, until now. Boys, girls, rich, poor, Catholic, Protestant - no child was guaranteed immunity from the bullet and bomb that week, in a place where teeming tenement life existed side by side with immense wealth. Drawing on extensive original research, along with interviews with relatives, Joe Duffy creates a compelling picture of these forty lives, along with one of the cut and thrust of city life between the two canals a century ago. This gripping story of Dublin and its people in 1916 will add immeasurably to our understanding of the Easter Rising. Above all, it honours the forgotten lives, largely buried in unmarked graves, of those young people who once called Dublin their home.

The Rising

The Rising
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 398
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780198732341
ISBN-13 : 0198732341
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis The Rising by : Fearghal McGarry

The story of Easter 1916 from the perspective of those who made it, focusing on the experiences of rank and file revolutionaries. Fearghal McGarry makes use of a unique source that has only recently seen the light of day - a collection of over 1,700 eye-witness statements detailing the political activities of members of Sinn Féin and militant groups such as the Irish Republican Brotherhood. This collection represents one of the richest and mostcomprehensive oral history archives devoted to any modern revolution, providing new insights on almost every aspect of this seminal period.