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Author
Publisher
Fondo Editorial Universitario
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the women who put their lives on the line for Irish freedom. They were not only the nurses, cooks, and couriers, but also gunrunners, sharpshooters, and organizers. Many who barely received mention in mainstream histories are fully revealed here both in their own words and by those who witnessed their incredible courage and leadership. Over 250 women took part in the Irish Rising, more than 70 were imprisoned, and one was sentenced...
42) Patrick Pearse
Author
Series
Publisher
The O'Brien Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"On 24 April 1916, as President of the Provisional Government, Patrick Pearse appeared under the GPO Grand Portico on Dublin's O'Connell Street and read aloud the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. Nine days later, he was the first of the rebel leaders to be executed. Pearse was born in Dublin on 11 November 1879, to an English father and an Irish mother. Considered the face of the 1916 Easter Rising, for many he was also its heart. In this definitive...
Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On Easter Sunday, April 23, 1916, the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council put their names to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, declaring that they were the provisional government of an Ireland free from British rule. In effect, each man had knowingly signed his own death warrent. Since then, the Seven have been eulogized and used as political weapons by many. To challenge the morality of the Rising was to be denounced as unpatriotic,...
44) De Valera
Author
Publisher
Gill Books
Pub. Date
[2017-2018]
Language
English
Description
"... Eamon de Valera is the most single most consequential Irish figure of the twentieth century. He was a leader of the Easter Rising, the figurehead of the anti-treaty rebels during the dark days of the Civil War and later, as the founder of Fianna Fail and President of Ireland, the pivotal figure in the birth of the Republic. While de Valera the statesman, the rebel, the visionary, has passed over into a sort of myth, de Valera the man remains...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"1975: A young Irish-American man joins an elite US Marine unit to get the most intensive military training possible -- then joins the Irish Republican Army, during the days of some of the bloodiest fighting ever in the Irish-British conflict . . . In a powerful, brutally honest, no-holds-barred recounting of his experience, John Crawley details, first, the grueling challenges of his Marine Corps training, then how he put his hard-earned munitions...
Author
Publisher
Irish Academic Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"County Wicklow, scene of some of the heaviest and intense fighting of the Rebellion of 1798, remained the most consistently disturbed part of Ireland until 1803." "This book investigates the underlying causes of this phenomenon and provides a detailed account of the experiences of all the major groupings, including the little known elements led by James Hughes and Michael Dalton. Myths regarding the dynamic Michael Dwyer of Imaal are dispelled by...
47) Thomas Kent
Author
Series
Publisher
The O'Brien Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Born in 1865 to a farming family of Fenian tradition near Fermoy in Co. Cork, Thomas Kent became involved in the Land League in the 1880s and lived for a time in Boston, where he was active in Irish cultural organisations. In 1890, back in Ireland he joined the fight against injustices and evictions and was imprisoned for his part in a boycott. At Easter 1916 Thomas and his brothers mobilised in Co. Cork and waited in vain for further orders. During...
