1916 : dream & death : the impact of the Irish Rising by Maxwell, Nicholas, 1950- editor instant download
98 pages : 30 cm, This book is intended to be an accessible illustrated account of the Easter 1916, containing articles on the Rising and the personalities involved, the wider impact of the Rising, combatant and non-combatant casualties, its aftermath, literacy legacy and historiography, amongst other topics. The contributors include Joost Augusteijn, Joseph Connell, Joe Duffy, Roy Foster, John Gibney, Bartle Faulkner, Lar Joye, Darren Kelly, Joe Lee, Mary McAuliffe, Lucy McDiarmid, Derek Molyneaux, Brian P. Murphy, Maurice Walsh and Padraig Yeates, Includes bibliographical references, Introduction: what's the story / Theo Dorgan -- Failure to plan: what might have been / John Gibney -- Easter Week: a brief history of a rebellion / Joseph E.A. Connell Jr. -- Patrick Pearse: thoroughly modern man of Europe / Joost Augusteijn -- James Connolly: red among the green / Emmet O'Connor -- Rebel women: allies or auxiliaries? / Mary McAuliffe -- British soldiers: slaughter at Mount Street / Derek Molyneux, Darren Kelly -- Policemen: simply doing their duty / Bartle Faulkner -- Armoured trucks and the Rising / Lar Joye -- British Army artillery in 1916 / Lar Joye -- The Helga II / Lar Joye -- Rifles in 1916 / Lar Joye -- Sir Roger Casement and the \"Irish Brigade\" / Lar Joye -- Home front: the Irish mammy at the threshold of the rebellion / Lucy McDiarmid -- Looting: looters, deserters and \"ordinary decent criminals\" of 1916 / Padraig Yeates -- Children: innocents lost and forgotten / Joe Duffy -- International context: Empire's difficulty was everyone's opportunity / Maurice Walsh -- Cultural legacy / Yeats changed only slowly / Roy Foster -- Church reaction: Limerick's rebel prelate / Brian P. Murphy, OSM -- Pearse denounced: don't let facts ruin a good argument / Joe Lee -- Moral justification?: heroic sacrifice or criminal behaviour? / compiled and edited by Joe Culley -- Books: rewriting the rising / John Gibney
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