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This is a concise history of the Irish rebellions, using newspaper reports, speeches, eyewitness accounts, and illustrative material. The text features the major events of 1798, 1803, 1848, 1867, 1898 and 1916, and the people involved: Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet, Anne Devlin, Fintan Lalor, Gavan Duffy, James Stephens, O'Donovan Rossa, Padraig Pearse, Eamon de Valera, Roger Casement and Michael Collins, together with literary figures such as Thomas Davis and James Clarence Mangan. The book discusses the Young Irelanders, the Fenian Brotherhood, secret societies, the Manchester Martyrs, the Easter Rising and the growth of Sinn Fein.
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a good primer for understanding 800 years of horror
23 Jun 2000
Helen Litton's book is a good start if you are at the beginning in your research of 800 years of horror and abuse inflicted on the Irish people by the British government. If you are already well-read on the subject, then this book offers little enlightenment. It is, however, worthwhile as a visual aid. There are excerpts from long lost books, lots of drawings and many black & white photographs. This is a very thin book. I recommend it as a starting point because it is very easy to read and does not have that text-book-feel that many historical documents are cursed with. I also recommend Morgan Llewelyn's 1916 if you are looking to spark passion and interest in the Irish struggle. Read that, read this & then you will have some background info. It will help to keep you from getting lost in the details of less colorful writers like Tim Pat Coogan. Litton's book attempts to be unbiased. It puts some of the Irish atrocities on display right along with the British crimes.
By the way, what do they mean when they say The Luck Of The Irish? Don't they know it was pretty dreadful until Michael Collins came along?
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