The Easter Rising

Author : Seán Enright
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 1908928360

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Easter Rising 1916 by Seán Enright Pdf

After the Rebellion, came the trials. 3,226 men and women were rounded up and brought to Richmond Barracks in Dublin, where they were screened for trial, deportation or release. In the following three weeks of May 1916 nearly 2,000 men and women were deported and interned. 160 prisoners were tried by Field General Courts Martial. These trials were held in camera - no press or public were admitted. None of the prisoners were legally represented or permitted to give sworn evidence in their own defence. Most trials lasted about 20 minutes or less. 90 death sentences were passed and 15 were carried out. This book provides a powerful analysis of an uncomfortable moment in history when the rule of law gave way to political imperatives. The trials and executions took place while the outcome of the Great War hung in the balance. The government judged that publication of the trial records would damage army recruitment and the war effort, so the trial records were suppressed and most were thought to have been destroyed. But since the turn of the century more and more trial records have surfaced, casting dramatic new insights into what took place. This book, the companion to The Trial of Civilians by Military Courts: Ireland 1921, is a fascinating and comprehensive study of the trials which proved to be a pivotal event in Anglo-Irish history.

Author : Michael Patrick MacDonald
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618470255

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Easter Rising by Michael Patrick MacDonald Pdf

This utterly unconventional narrative of reinvention begins with the young MacDonald's first forays outside the soul-crushing walls of Southie's Old Colony housing project. He provides one-of-a-kind 1980s social history and a powerful glimpse of what punk music was for him.

Author : Michael T Foy,Brian Barton
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752472720

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The Easter Rising by Michael T Foy,Brian Barton Pdf

On Easter Monday, between 1,000 and 1,500 Irish Volunteers and members of the Irish Citizen Army seized the General Post Office and other key locations in Dublin. The intention of their leaders, including Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, was to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent thirty-two county Irish republic. For a week battle raged in the Irish capital until the Rising collapsed. The rebel leaders were executed soon afterwards, though in death their ideals quickly triumphed. lluminating every aspect of that fateful Easter week, The Easter Rising is based on an impressive range of original sources. It has been fully revised, expanded and updated in the light of a wealth of new material and extensive use has been made of almost 2,000 witness statements that the Bureau of Military History in Dublin gathered from participants in the Rising. The result is a vivid depiction of the personalities and actions not just of the leaders on both sides but the rank and file and civilians as well. The book brings the reader closer to the events of 1916 than has previously been possible and provides an exceptional account of a city at war.

Author : Fearghal McGarry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192801869

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The Rising by Fearghal McGarry Pdf

Tells the story of the Easter Rising from the perspective of the rank and file revolutionaries, based on a recently-discovered collection of over 1700 eye-witness statements.

Author : Michael McNally
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1846030676

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Easter Rising 1916 by Michael McNally Pdf

When the outbreak of World War I (1914-1918) delayed home rule for Ireland, a faction of Irish nationalists - the Irish Republican Brotherhood - decided to take direct action and infiltrated a number of other nationalist and militia outfits. On Easter Monday 1916, whilst armed men seized key points across Dublin, a rebellion was launched from the steps of the General Post Office (GPO) and Patrick Pearse proclaimed the existence of an Irish Republic and the establishment of a Provisional Government. The British response was a military one and martial law was declared throughout Ireland. Over the next five days they drove the rebels back in violent street fighting until the Provisional Government surrendered on April 29. Central Dublin was left in ruins. The leaders of the rising were tried by court martial: 15 of them were summarily executed and a further 3,500 'sympathizers' imprisoned. Although the majority of the Irish population was against the rebellion, the manner of its suppression began to turn their heads in favor of those who would call for independence from Britain 'at any cost.' Covering in detail this important milestone in the ongoing Anglo-Irish struggle, bestselling author Michael McNally thoroughly examines the politics and tactics employed, to provide a well-researched study of the roots and outcome of this conflict. Furthermore, the array of unique photographs depicting this calamitous event help to bring to life one of the key episodes that shaped Irish history.

Author : Patricia Murphy
Publisher : Poolbeg Press Ltd
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Easter Rising 1916 - Molly's Diary by Patricia Murphy Pdf

Easter 1916. The Great War rages in Europe with two hundred thousand Irishmen fighting in the British Army. But a small group of Irish nationalists refuse to fight for Britain and strike a blow for Irish freedom. Caught up in the action in Dublin, is twelve-year-old Molly O’Donovan. Her own family is plunged into danger on both sides of the conflict. Her father, a technical officer with the Post Office dodges the crossfire as he tries to restore the telegraph lines while her wayward brother runs messages for the rebels. Molly a trained First Aider, risks her own safety to help the wounded on both sides. As violence and looting erupts in the streets of Dublin alongside heroism and high ideals, Molly records it all. The Proclamation at the GPO, the battle of Mount Street, the arrival of the British Troops. But will Molly’s own family survive and will she be able to save her brother? This is her diary.

Author : Ruan O'Donnell,Mícheál Ó hAodha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Dublin (Ireland)
ISBN : 1785370669

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Voices from the Easter Rising by Ruan O'Donnell,Mícheál Ó hAodha Pdf

A vivid collection of dramatic eyewitness accounts of the events of Easter Week 1916, which detail how the Rising unfolded in Dublin and in a range of other Irish cities, towns and villages. Extraordinary first-hand testimonies from the ranks of the Irish Volunteers, the Irish Citizen Army, Cumann na mBan, the British Army, members of the public and civil servants reveal how, in the streets of Dublin and around the country, the lives of its citizens were changed forever. Drawn from previously unpublished letters, diaries, memoirs, statements from the Bureau of Military History and contemporary publications, these moving narratives undercut divisions of nation, rank, and gender, and provide an invaluable insight into this period of conflict. They also provide the reader with a direct and immediate portrayal of the actions and emotions of the revolutionaries and the forces they raged against. Giving voice once more to the protagonists beyond the pantheon of martyrs, for those seeking an accurate understanding of how the events of Easter Week actually took place, this is essential reading. -- Publisher description

Author : Conor Kostick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Dublin (Ireland)
ISBN : OCLC:1405893086

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The Easter Rising by Conor Kostick Pdf

Author : Richard Killeen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 1568473915

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The Easter Rising by Richard Killeen Pdf

Uses first-person accounts, documents, and photographs to trace the events of the Easter Rising in 1916 Dublin.

Author : Joe Duffy
Publisher : Hachette Ireland
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473617049

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Children of the Rising by Joe Duffy Pdf

Children of the Rising is the first ever account of the young lives violently lost during the week of the 1916 Rising: long-forgotten and never commemorated, until now. Boys, girls, rich, poor, Catholic, Protestant - no child was guaranteed immunity from the bullet and bomb that week, in a place where teeming tenement life existed side by side with immense wealth. Drawing on extensive original research, along with interviews with relatives, Joe Duffy creates a compelling picture of these forty lives, along with one of the cut and thrust of city life between the two canals a century ago. This gripping story of Dublin and its people in 1916 will add immeasurably to our understanding of the Easter Rising. Above all, it honours the forgotten lives, largely buried in unmarked graves, of those young people who once called Dublin their home.

Author : Pat Hegarty
Publisher : Gill Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0717147738

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The Easter Rising 1916 by Pat Hegarty Pdf

This interactive journal tells the story of the 1916 Easter Rising through the eyes of a young Dublin boy. From the early preparations through to the bloody aftermath, find out about the main characters and events in a week that changed the course of Irish history. Includes pop-ups and flaps throughout and a fold-out facsimile of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic.

Author : Turtle Bunbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 1781172587

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Easter Dawn by Turtle Bunbury Pdf

In the long and epic fight for Irish independence, few events match the drama and tragedy of the Easter Rising of 1916. Inspired by the legends of old and sharing the dream of an independent Ireland, an extraordinary alliance of men and women sought to overthrow British rule in Ireland. 'Easter Dawn' charts the story of the Rising from the landing of the guns at Howth in 1914, to the arrests and executions that followed it. The fate of those involved - rebel and loyalist alike - is told through eyewitness accounts and media reports. Intricately researched and emotively written, the narrative is woven around contemporary photographs, many rare and unseen, providing a fresh look at the people and places involved. As the centenary of 1916 approaches, this book is ideally suited for anyone seeking an accessible, impartial and dramatic view of that immense week.

Author : Turtle Bunbury
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 1442244615

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The 1916 Rising by Turtle Bunbury Pdf

"Easter Dawn charts the story of the 1916 Rising, from the landing of the guns at Howth for the Irish Volunteers in 1914 to the arrests and executions that followed it. The battlegrounds that erupted across Dublin city and elsewhere in Ireland form the stage upon which a remarkable cast assembled." -- Book jacket

Author : Owen Dudley Edwards,Fergus Pyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010416397

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1916: the Easter Rising by Owen Dudley Edwards,Fergus Pyle Pdf

Author : Charles Townshend
Publisher : Penguin Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 0141982470

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Easter 1916 by Charles Townshend Pdf

Townshend traces the dramatic events of the Easter Rebellion in Dublin in 1916, the actions and aims of the rebels, the British response to the revolt and the consequences, politically and culturally, of the uprising.