Battle of the Four Courts :
Fewer, Michael.
Battle of the Four Courts : the first three days of the Irish Civil War / Michael Fewer. - xiii, 335 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Irish Civil War began at around four o'clock in the morning on June 28, 1922. An 18-pounder artillery piece began to fire on the thick granite walls of the Four Courts - a beautiful eighteenth-century complex of buildings that housed Ireland's highest legal tribunals. Inside the courts a large party of IRA men were barricaded - a clear sign that the treaty ending the war of independence would never be accepted by passionate republicans. After three days of fighting, with the buildings in ruins, the garrison surrendered. But the Four Courts also housed Ireland's historical archives, and these irreplaceable documents were destroyed, with burnt paper raining down over the city. This was a cultural disaster for the new state and its historical memory. Michael Fewer has a sure command of the political and military history of those years, and a mastery of the architectural and technological aspects of the battle. His recreation of this tragic episode is an intimate, detailed and essential addition to the literature of the Irish Revolution. - Book cover.
9781788546645
2018439248
GBB8G8578 bnb
019049345 Uk
Ireland--History--Civil War, 1922-1923.
Ireland--History--20th century.
DA963 / .F49 2018
941.50822
Battle of the Four Courts : the first three days of the Irish Civil War / Michael Fewer. - xiii, 335 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Irish Civil War began at around four o'clock in the morning on June 28, 1922. An 18-pounder artillery piece began to fire on the thick granite walls of the Four Courts - a beautiful eighteenth-century complex of buildings that housed Ireland's highest legal tribunals. Inside the courts a large party of IRA men were barricaded - a clear sign that the treaty ending the war of independence would never be accepted by passionate republicans. After three days of fighting, with the buildings in ruins, the garrison surrendered. But the Four Courts also housed Ireland's historical archives, and these irreplaceable documents were destroyed, with burnt paper raining down over the city. This was a cultural disaster for the new state and its historical memory. Michael Fewer has a sure command of the political and military history of those years, and a mastery of the architectural and technological aspects of the battle. His recreation of this tragic episode is an intimate, detailed and essential addition to the literature of the Irish Revolution. - Book cover.
9781788546645
2018439248
GBB8G8578 bnb
019049345 Uk
Ireland--History--Civil War, 1922-1923.
Ireland--History--20th century.
DA963 / .F49 2018
941.50822