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Vivid faces : the revolutionary generation in Ireland, 1890-1923

Vivid faces : the revolutionary generation in Ireland, 1890-1923

Book 2015

"A history of Ireland's Easter Rising told through the lives of ordinary people who forged a revolutionary generation. On Easter Monday, 1916, Irish rebels poured into Dublin's streets to proclaim an independent republic. Ireland's long struggle for self-government had suddenly become a radical and bloody fight for independence from Great Britain. Irish nationalists mounted a week-long insurrection, occupying public buildings and creating mayhem...