Kenna, Kevin

All the risings / Kevin Kenna. - xvii, 203 pp.: ill. (black and white), maps ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Battle of Clontarf, AD 1014 -- Nine Years' War, 1594-1603 -- 1641 Rising -- Battle of the Boyne, 1690 -- 1798 Rising -- 1803 Rising -- Young Ireland Rising, 1848 -- Fenian Rising, 1867 -- Fenian Rising, 1867 -- Easter Rising, 1916.

"In every generation the Irish people have assedrted their right to national freedom and sovereignty." - Proclamation to the people of Ireland, Dublin 1916.

All the Risings brings together the nine principal occasions in Ireland's history on which resistance was made to the dominance of those who controlled the country's destiny.
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9781782188551 : (hbk.)


Revolutions--History.--Ireland
Colonialism.


Ireland--History.--Popular works.
Ireland--Politics and government.

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