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A vivid and compelling narrative that explores the thoughts, fears, and motivations of the revolutionaries in this seminal event. (The Boston Globe )
'The Rising' offers invaluable insights into the insurrection from ground level. (The Boston Globe )
McGarry offers a poignant mosaic of idealism, bravery, and humanity. (The Boston Globe )
'The Rising' is rich with tales of the acts of ordinary Dubliners. (The Boston Globe )
The novelty of the book lies in its perspective. (America )
He seamlessly weaves together these richly evocative witnesses with current historiography and narrative. (America Magazine )
A very readable, yet historically important book that will appeal to general readers and to experts. (Mary E. Daly, The Irish Times )
'The Rising' offers invaluable insights into the insurrection from ground level. (The Boston Globe )
McGarry offers a poignant mosaic of idealism, bravery, and humanity. (The Boston Globe )
'The Rising' is rich with tales of the acts of ordinary Dubliners. (The Boston Globe )
The novelty of the book lies in its perspective. (America )
He seamlessly weaves together these richly evocative witnesses with current historiography and narrative. (America Magazine )
A very readable, yet historically important book that will appeal to general readers and to experts. (Mary E. Daly, The Irish Times )
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A vivid and compelling narrative that explores the thoughts, fears, and motivations of the revolutionaries in this seminal event. The Boston Globe 'The Rising' offers invaluable insights into the insurrection from ground level. The Boston Globe McGarry offers a poignant mosaic of idealism, bravery, and humanity. The Boston Globe 'The Rising' is rich with tales of the acts of ordinary Dubliners. The Boston Globe The novelty of the book lies in its perspective. America He seamlessly weaves together these richly evocative witnesses with current historiography and narrative. America Magazine A very readable, yet historically important book that will appeal to general readers and to experts. Mary E. Daly, The Irish Times
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Although I have just started to read this book I am very impressed with it and if it is read in conjunction with other subject matter it gives a wider view of the 1916 Uprising. It covers all the aspects and I think from the Irish view whilst giving a smattering of the British view.
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Why the Rising failed, yet why its legacy succeeded
28 April 2010
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This cannot be faulted. Integrating 1700 oral interviews done with eyewitnesses and participants during the 1950s by the Bureau of Military History, McGarry examines "from below" what the Rising felt like. He emphasizes the men and women on the street, literally, who fought in the rebellion, who opposed it, or who agitated and berated those who did fight. For, the uprising resulted in over half of its deaths being civilian as the city center was looted, burned, and bombed by British naval artillery sent to crush the rebels.
Professor McGarry with four previous books on republican history to his credit succeeds in a fair-minded, objective perusal of many vexing questions. Neither Patrick Pearse's "blood sacrifice" nor class warfare, McGarry holds from the evidence that the rebellion was mainly a desperate attempt to take advantage of what Mick Collins deemed "England's difficulty" in the thick of WWI to divert British troops, invite German arms, and entangle the Crown in what might have gained the stillborn Republic a chance to gain legitimacy at post-war peace talks. A longshot, and certainly eight countermanded orders to mobilize the Irish Volunteers and Citizen Army in the days before led to the Rising's quicker doom. The two thousand in Dublin who did come out to fight managed to blunder into strategic positions they could not hold for long, often, while others took over places with little foresight as to supply lines, placement, or rationale.
Added to his account, the chapter about attempts among the other thousand who rose up or did not in the rest of the country to join the Rising enhances this narrative. Also, the ambivalence and fear shown by the constabulary, largely Catholic and caught between duty to King and camaraderie with those they faced across the barricades, deepened the tension. Too little attention here to both these elements has been paid by past historians. He writes accessibly and while this book may be more for scholars, any reader will learn from it and be guided as he or she goes due to the background chapters-- a third of the contents-- preceding the six days of the Rising itself.
McGarry also incorporates the historiographical debates about the legitimacy of the uprising and the role of violence to establish the Republic. His study balances revisionist and post-revisionist claims well. He supports his interpretations carefully with primary evidence from the oral histories applied judiciously. It's a complex matter he handles adroitly.
While the mixture of farce and heroism, bloodshed and sympathy, as in Dublin, makes the stories heard and transcribed all the more human, one concludes that the Rising overall was more to save face for a generation compelled by the prevalent militarism of the "physical force tradition" to attempt another uprising against imperial tyranny regardless of the odds against it. The pent-up and put-off demands for Home Rule among a nationalist majority, McGarry explains, enabled even the failure of the rebels of 1916 to soon energize and resurrect another war that, finally, would result in most of Ireland within five years to gain a sort of independence, however contested, partitioned, and itself fought over again and again.
Professor McGarry with four previous books on republican history to his credit succeeds in a fair-minded, objective perusal of many vexing questions. Neither Patrick Pearse's "blood sacrifice" nor class warfare, McGarry holds from the evidence that the rebellion was mainly a desperate attempt to take advantage of what Mick Collins deemed "England's difficulty" in the thick of WWI to divert British troops, invite German arms, and entangle the Crown in what might have gained the stillborn Republic a chance to gain legitimacy at post-war peace talks. A longshot, and certainly eight countermanded orders to mobilize the Irish Volunteers and Citizen Army in the days before led to the Rising's quicker doom. The two thousand in Dublin who did come out to fight managed to blunder into strategic positions they could not hold for long, often, while others took over places with little foresight as to supply lines, placement, or rationale.
Added to his account, the chapter about attempts among the other thousand who rose up or did not in the rest of the country to join the Rising enhances this narrative. Also, the ambivalence and fear shown by the constabulary, largely Catholic and caught between duty to King and camaraderie with those they faced across the barricades, deepened the tension. Too little attention here to both these elements has been paid by past historians. He writes accessibly and while this book may be more for scholars, any reader will learn from it and be guided as he or she goes due to the background chapters-- a third of the contents-- preceding the six days of the Rising itself.
McGarry also incorporates the historiographical debates about the legitimacy of the uprising and the role of violence to establish the Republic. His study balances revisionist and post-revisionist claims well. He supports his interpretations carefully with primary evidence from the oral histories applied judiciously. It's a complex matter he handles adroitly.
While the mixture of farce and heroism, bloodshed and sympathy, as in Dublin, makes the stories heard and transcribed all the more human, one concludes that the Rising overall was more to save face for a generation compelled by the prevalent militarism of the "physical force tradition" to attempt another uprising against imperial tyranny regardless of the odds against it. The pent-up and put-off demands for Home Rule among a nationalist majority, McGarry explains, enabled even the failure of the rebels of 1916 to soon energize and resurrect another war that, finally, would result in most of Ireland within five years to gain a sort of independence, however contested, partitioned, and itself fought over again and again.
A must have viiew of the rising
27 April 2012
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A clear precise view of all the parties involved in the 1916 Easter Rising with an insight I wish I had 50 years ago. Irish history is only now been told in a more truthful manner.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Too deep for me to read
22 Dec 2011
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The Easter Rebellion is one of my favorite subjects, and I try to read anything I can find about it. Even with that, I had to give up on this book after only a couple of chapters. I'm sure that the author has done a great job writing his book, but I just could not read it. Maybe for scholars and doctoral students it is a great read, but for the average to above average reader, it is just too difficult to navigate.
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