Easter 1916
Easter 1916

Author: Charles Townshend

Publisher: Penguin Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780141982472

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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.

The Irish Rebellion of 1916 and Its Martyrs
The Irish Rebellion of 1916 and Its Martyrs

Author: Padraic Colum

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-08

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9781356027286

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Dublin 1916
Dublin 1916

Author: Clair Wills

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780674036338

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On Easter Monday 1916, a disciplined group of Irish Volunteers seized the city's General Post Office in what would become the defining act of rebellion against British rule. This book unravels the events in and around the GPO during the Easter Rising of 1916, revealing the twists and turns that the myth of the GPO has undergone in the last century.

A Terrible Beauty Is Born
A Terrible Beauty Is Born

Author: W. B. Yeats

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0241251532

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'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...' By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.

Sacred and Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland since 1914
Sacred and Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland since 1914

Author: John Wolffe

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-11-28

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1350019267

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During and immediately after the First World War, there was a merging of Christian and nationalist traditions of martyrdom, expressed in the design of war cemeteries and war memorials, and the state funeral of the Unknown Warrior in 1920. John Wolffe explores the subsequent development of these traditions of 'sacred' and 'secular' martyrdom, analysing the ways in which they operated - sometimes in parallel, sometimes merged together and sometimes in conflict with each other. Particular topics explored include the Protestant commemoration of Marian and missionary martyrs, and the Roman Catholic campaign for the canonization of the 'saints and martyrs of England'. Secular martyrdom is discussed in relation to military conflicts especially the Second World War and the Falklands. In Ireland there was a particularly persistent merging of sacred and secular martyrdom in the wake of the Easter Rising of 1916 although by the time of the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' in the later twentieth-century these traditions diverged. In covering these themes, the book also offers historical and comparative context for understanding present-day acts of martyrdom in the form of suicide attacks.

The Easter Rising
The Easter Rising

Author: Alan J. Ward

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2003-01-20

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13:

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In this innovative work, Alan Ward uses the pivotal event in twentieth-century Irish history as a prism through which to survey Irish history from the twelfth century to the present. By asking why the Easter Rising occurred, Ward is able to review the history of Anglo-Irish relations, from the time of Norman settlement to World War I, as well as the development of several kinds of Irish nationalism in the nineteenth century. Then, by asking what the effects of the Rising have been, Ward discusses the Irish war of independence, the creation of the Irish Free State, and the Irish civil war, pondering the influence of the various strands of Irish nationalism on the modern state. Finally, the book reviews the conflict in Northern Ireland from the 1960s all the way to the fall of 2002, making this distinctive and analysis ideal for use as a core text in Irish history or superb supplementary reading for survey courses in British, European, and World History.

Kevin Barry
Kevin Barry

Author: Eunan O'Halpin

Publisher: Merrion Press

Published: 2020-10-22

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 178537351X

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On 1 November 1920, eighteen-year-old UCD medical student Kevin Barry was hanged in Dublin’s Mountjoy Jail for his role in a bungled IRA operation in which three British soldiers were killed. To this day, he remains a vibrant and celebrated icon of patriotic, idealistic death, his name synonymous with youthful republican sacrifice. His life was short, but Kevin was more than a hapless teen swept away in the revolutionary maelstrom of the time. Here, Professor Eunan O’Halpin, a grand-nephew of Barry, accesses exclusive family records and other archives to explore Kevin’s republicanism and the endurance of his memory, one hundred years on from his untimely death. Kevin’s humorous letters show a rounded, irreverent and humane schoolboy and young man, while British records confirm his laconic heroism as he bravely awaited his inevitable execution. From his unique vantage point, O’Halpin also considers Barry’s death in parallel with those other Irishmen who died for the republican cause within days of his own, how his background challenged assumptions about those who fought for Irish independence, and the lasting legacy of having ‘a martyr in the family’.