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The Easter Rising
A
Guide to Dublin in 1916
by Lorcan
Collins & Conor Kostick
A
vivid and entertaining guide to the events and locations of the
Easter 1916 Rising.
Defying
all the odds 1600 men, women and children went out on 24 April, Easter
Monday, 1916 to fight for an independent Ireland. The battle raged
for six days and resulted in the destruction of many parts of Dublin
city.
The
bloody executions of the leaders by the British after the Rising awakened
a generation to the cause of Irish freedom.
Vividly
illustrated, this book takes you through the battle-torn streets of
Dublin. Hear the sounds, smell the gunpowder and meet the main players,
as the complexities of this dramatic episode in Irish history are
explained in an accessible and concise fashion. |
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Conor and Lorcan
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Praise
for The Easter Rising
'A short popular-style history of the event -- indeed a
remarkably thorough one, in which we discovered events we had
forgotten or not known, and found photographs that were new
to us too -- but the arrangement by location rather than time
means that the devout pilgrim or visitor is encouraged and helped
to view the places of significance.'
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