The 1916 Diaries Of An Irish Rebel And A British Soldier

Author : Mick O'Farrell
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781173028
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 1916 Diaries of an Irish Rebel and a British Soldier written by Mick O'Farrell and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the unpublished diaries of two men writing under fire on the streets of Dublin in April 1916. In Jacob's factory, Volunteer Seosamh de Brún wrote in his tiny diary about guard duties and a bicycle sortie to help de Valera, during which a sniper killed one of the cyclists. Meanwhile, across the Liffey, British soldier Samuel Lomas wrote in his own diary of building barricades across Moore Street and participating in the executions of Pearse, Clarke and MacDonagh, giving new insights into the rebellion's grim closing days. Mick O'Farrell brilliantly juxtaposes these two accounts, including fascimilies that show through deteriorating handwriting the increasing pressure the diarists were under, to give a dramatic account of how ordinary participants experienced the events of Easter week.

Author : Mick O'Farrell
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1856357333
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Walk Through Rebel Dublin 1916 written by Mick O'Farrell and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Walk Through Rebel Dublin 1916 is a comprehensively illustrated guide to the Rising of Easter Week 1916, based on the significant locations of the rebellion. Dealing separately with thirty buildings and sites throughout the city – including the GPO, Liberty Hall, Trinity College, the Four Courts and Dublin Castle – the author provides a brief, fascinating history of the events and personalities that dominated these locations during Easter Week. A contemporary photograph of each location is juxtaposed with a photograph of the building or streetscape as it looks today. While some dramatic changes have taken place in the architecture of Dublin over the course of the twentieth century, there is much that has remained unaltered, as these images will testify. A Walk Through Rebel Dublin 1916 can be read and enjoyed without visiting the locations featured, but the reader is encouraged to walk the streets of Dublin, book in hand, to get a vivid sense of some of the most dramatic episodes in Ireland's history.

Author : Amy Lidster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316517489
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare at War written by Amy Lidster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first material history of how Shakespeare has been 'recruited' in wartime.

Author : John Devoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recollections of an Irish Rebel written by John Devoy and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patricia Murphy
Publisher : Poolbeg Press Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Easter Rising 1916 - Molly's Diary written by Patricia Murphy and published by Poolbeg Press Ltd. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Travis Elborough
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1782437363
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our History of the 20th Century written by Travis Elborough and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing events but also the domestic and personal moments of those who lived through it. The book draws on over one hundred diarists. They include the great and the good - from Beatrice Webb to Tony Benn, from A. C. Benson to Alan Bennett, from Virginia Ironside to Hanif Kureishi - as well as many less-well-known individuals such as Gladys Langford and Kathleen Tipper, whose writings for the Mass Observation Project offer brilliant glimpses into what the man or woman on the street really made of the stuff of history at the time. From the Easter Rising to the arrival of email, from the Boer War to New Labour, here are responses to the death of Princess Diana, the resignation of Margaret Thatcher, the Moon landing, the Beatles and much more. Guardian Best Books of 2017, selected by David Kynaston Praise for Travis Elborough: 'One of Britain's finest pop culture historians.' Guardian 'Elborough is an English nostalgist in the mode of John Betjeman . as a cultural commentator he is a terrific companion.' Sunday Times 'Travis Elborough is becoming a latter-day Alan Bennett.' Spectator 'Elborough has the passion of a true enthusiast.' Mail on Sunday 'Elborough is a charming, funny and frequently fascinating guide.' Telegraph

Author : Joe Duffy
Publisher : Hachette Ireland
ISBN 13 : 1473617049
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of the Rising written by Joe Duffy and published by Hachette Ireland. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Derek Molyneux
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788410343
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Those of Us Who Must Die written by Derek Molyneux and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1916 Rising is one of the most documented and analysed episodes in Ireland's turbulent history. Often overlooked, however, is its immediate aftermath. This significant window in the narrative of Irish revolutionary history, which saw the rebirth of the Volunteers and laid the foundations for the War of Independence, is usually covered as a footnote, or from the biographical standpoints of the leaders. Picking up where the authors' acclaimed account of the Rising, When the Clock Struck in 1916, left off, we join the men and women of the Rising in the dark abyss of defeat. The leaders' poignant final hours and violent ends are laid bare, but the perspective of those with the unpalatable task of carrying out the executions is also revealed, rectifying a historic disservice to those who reluctantly formed the firing squads. While the prisoners in Dublin awaited their grisly fates, others were deported in stinking cattle boats to camps in England and Wales. When they returned, it was to a jubilant welcome in a radically changed country. The gruesome death of Thomas Ashe in September 1917, after being force-fed in Mountjoy Prison, became a marshalling point for the republican movement, as his funeral saw Volunteers once again assembled in uniform on Dublin's streets. The next phase of the struggle was born, under new leaders who had 'graduated' from the internment camps known as 'Republican Universities', ready and eager to fill the void left by the executed visionaries. The authors sifted through thousands of first-hand accounts of the suffering endured when ordinary people set out to change history. Their stirring account will transport readers into life as it looked, sounded and even smelt to those taking part in this crucial juncture of our history.

Author : David Hargreaves
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1913532666
Total Pages : 2186 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As We Were written by David Hargreaves and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 2186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fought between 1914 and 1918, World War One - The Great War - was the most titanic and devastating conflict the world had yet seen. Detailing the course of the war week-by-week and the intimate accounts and experiences of soldiers and civilians alike, As We Were offers insight like no other into a war that impacted generations the world over.

Author : Peter De Rosa
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307422941
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebels written by Peter De Rosa and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A WORK OF GREAT DRAMATIC POWER climaxing in the final hundred pages where he writes a full, searing narrative of the patriot leaders' last days . . . It's powerful stuff." --The Sunday Press (Ireland) On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it. Crack British troops killed and wounded hundreds of the rebels in the week of fighting, and British artillery shells left Dublin's city center in ruins. But the Rising of 1916 was not in vain. The short-lived insurrection and the subsequent executions of sixteen rebel leaders galvanized the Irish people. The overthrow of seven centuries of British rule in Ireland began on Easter Monday, 1916. In Rebels, Peter de Rosa, author of the bestselling Vicars of Christ, tells the story of the 1916 Rising in all its terror and beauty. With the dramatic flair of a novelist and the scrupulous accuracy of a professional historian, de Rosa brings to life the people, passions, politics, and repercussions of this historic event.