Lavishly illustrated, this book is a stunner. `An interesting exploration of the nature of memory and how commemoration reconfigures the past that it recalls. Lavishly illustrated with 200 documents and images, it provides a fresh and compelling account of the Rising and its aftermath. Rebels, edited by one of Irelands top young historians, brings the best of the surviving accounts of the Easter Rising together into a comprehensive. Invigorating and provocative, this is the story of how, in the years following the Easter Rising, the radical ideals that inspired their revolution were gradually supplanted by a conservative vision of the nation Ireland would become. Read more Helena Molony, the first female political prisoner of her generation Sean Connolly, the first rebel to die in the Rising carpenter Barney Murphy usherette Ellen Bushell and Hollywood star Arthur Shields. Drawing on a huge range of previously unpublished material, The Abbey Rebels of Easter 1916 explores the experiences, hopes and dreams of these remarkable but largely forgotten individuals: Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh, the Abbey's first leading lady Peadar Kearney, author of the national anthem feminist. The Abbey Theatre played a leading role in the politicisation of the revolutionary generation that won Irish freedom, but comparatively little is known about the men and women who formed the lifeblood of the institution: those whose radical politics drove them to fight in the 1916 Rising. The Rising Fearghal McGarry The Easter Rising of 1916 not only destroyed much of the centre of Dublin - it changed the course of Irish history. Description for The Abbey Rebels of 1916: A Lost Revolution Hardcover.
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