1916 : the mornings after : from the courts martial to the tribunals / Tim Pat Coogan.
Publisher: London : Head Of Zeus, 2015Description: 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781784080099
- Nineteen sixteen
- 23 941.50821
- DA962 .C662 2015
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Loanable Book | Library | Irish Collection | 941.50821 COO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000414090 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-317) and index.
The 1916 Easter Rising and its aftermath changed Ireland for ever. The British government's execution of 14 republican rebels transformed a group hitherto perceived as cranks and troublemakers into national heroes. Those who avoided the British firing squads of May 1916 went on to plan a new - and ultimately successful - struggle for Ireland's independence, shaping their country's destiny for the century to come. Historian Tim Pat Coogan offers a strongly personal perspective on the Irish century that followed the Rising - charting a flawed history that is marked as much by complacency, corruption and institutional and clerical abuse, as it is by the sacrifices and nation-building achievements of the Republic's founding fathers -- Source other than Library of Congress.
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