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020			_a9781788546645 _q(hbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)on1063749681
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050	0	0	_aDA963 _b.F49 2018
082	0	4	_a941.50822 _223
100	1		_aFewer, Michael. _9253
245	1	0	_aBattle of the Four Courts : _bthe first three days of the Irish Civil War / _cMichael Fewer.
264		1	_aLondon : _bHead of Zeus, _c2018.
300			_axiii, 335 pages : _billustrations (black and white) ; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThe 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.
651		0	_aIreland _xHistory _yCivil War, 1922-1923. _950727
651		0	_aIreland _xHistory _y20th century. _950156
776	0	8	_iebook version : _z9781788546638
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