Confessions of an Irish Rebel
Author: Brendan Behan
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 270
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Author: Brendan Behan
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 270
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 288
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Published: 1965
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brendan Behan
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 2004-09
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781567921052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: "Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there's two gentlemen here to see you.' I knew by the screeches of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health . . . I grabbed my suitcase, containing Pot. Chlor., Sulph Ac, gelignite, detonators, electrical and ignition, and the rest of my Sinn Fein conjurer's outfit, and carried it to the window . . ." The men were, of course, the police, and seventeen-year-old Behan. He spent three years as a prisoner in England, primarily in Borstal (reform school), and was then expelled to his homeland, a changed but hardly defeated rebel. Once banned in the Irish Republic, Borstal Boy is both a riveting self-portrait and a clear look into the problems, passions, and heartbreak of Ireland.
Author: E.H. Mikhail
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1980-06-18
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1349051152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Terry Golway
Publisher: Merrion Press
Published: 2015-10-05
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1785370413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribed by Padraig Pearse as the “greatest of the Fenians”, John Devoy was born before the Famine and lived to see the Irish tricolour flying from Dublin Castle. The descendent of a rebel family, he was an avowed Fenian who went into exile in New York in 1871. Over the next half-century he was the most-prominent leader of the Irish-American nationalist movement. Every Irish leader from Parnell to Pearse sought his counsel. He organised a dramatic rescue of Fenian prisoners from Australia, rallied Irish America behind the Land War, served as a middle man between the Easter rebels and the German government, and helped move Irish-American opinion in favour of the Treaty. When he died in 1928, Devoy was accorded a state funeral and a hero’s burial in Ireland. This new revised edition of the acclaimed biography of this overlooked architect of the Irish independence movement is also the story of Ireland, and of Irish-America, from the Famine to Freedom, examining the extraordinary cloak-and-dagger planning of the Easter Rising and the critical role of America in its outcome. “The Devoy story, in Terry Golway’s hands, combines wide scholarship and adventure: it reads like a novel. Get a comfortable chair when you read this book: you won’t be able to put it down.” – Frank McCourt “Terry Golway tells the story of this exceptional man with affection and deft narrative sense…this book will charm and enlighten readers.” – Thomas Keneally
Author: John Devoy
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 512
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 490
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kevin Toolis
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2015-07-07
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 1250088739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor ten years Kevin Toolis investigated the lives of the IRA soldiers who wage a secret battle against the British State. His journeys took him from the back kitchens of Belfast, where men joked while making two-thousand-pound bombs, to prisons for interviews with men serving life sentences, and to the graveyards where mourners weep. Each chapter explores a world where history, faith, and human savagery determine life and death. At once moving and harrowing,Rebel Hearts is the most authoritative and insightful book ever written on the IRA.