By Charles Townshend
A gripping narrative of the main serious years in glossy Ireland's historical past, from Charles Townshend
The protracted, poor struggle for independence pitted the Irish opposed to the British and the Irish opposed to different Irish. It was once either a actual conflict of stunning violence opposed to a regime more and more noticeable as alien and unacceptable and an highbrow conflict for a brand new kind of state. the wear performed, the betrayals and grim compromises placed the recent state right into a nation of trauma for no less than a iteration, yet at an almost unacceptable price the fight ended: a brand new republic used to be born.
Charles Townshend's Easter 1916 opened up the wonderful occasions round the emerging for a brand new iteration and in The Republic he bargains, with a similar unflinchingly desire to get to the reality at the back of the legend, with the main serious years in Ireland's heritage. there was a superb temptation to view those years throughout the prisms of martyrology and good-and-evil. the image painted through Townshend is way extra nuanced and sceptical - but additionally by no means loses sight of the standard kinds of heroism played by way of Irish women and men trapped in striking times.
Reviews:
'Electric ... [a] magisterial and crucial publication' Irish Times
About the author:
Charles Townshend is the writer of the hugely praised Easter 1916:The Irish Rebellion. His different books comprise The British Campaigns in eire, 1919-21 and When God Made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Making of Iraq, 1914-21.
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