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Title

Blood on the Banner The Republican Struggle in Clare.

Publication

Gardners Books 2009.

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Description

351 p. ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Fifty three republicans from Clare gave their lives in the struggle for independence. This book takes the story of Clare's republicans from the start of the twentieth century to the end of the War of Independence. It examines the course of the campaign, the events tragic, heroic and the victims, British and Irish.

Subject

• 1919-1921
• Geschichte 1913-1923
• Republicanism > Clare > History
• Revolutionaries > Clare > Biography
• Clare (Ireland) > History
• Ireland > History > War of Independence, 1919-1921

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bliographical records (p. [335-337) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Sacred Cause of Freedom: The Republican Struggle in Clare 1798-1867 -- 2. Finishing What the Fenians Started: The Irish Volunteers in Clare 1913-1916 -- 3. No Word, nor Sign of a Word: The 1916 Rising in Clare -- 4. I Die in a Good Cause -- 5. Hitting First: Making Clare Impossible to Police 1919-1920 -- 6. Keeping Down the Irish -- 7. Risen People -- 8. Another Black Page in British History -- 9. Down into the Mire -- 10. Freedom? -- 11. All Our Efforts Have Been in Vain -- 12. Our Dreams Like Rags About Us -- Roll of Honour -- Clare Republicans 1918-1925 -- Clare Civilians killed during the War of Independence -- Free State army casualties in Clare 1922-1923 -- British casualties in Clare during the War of Independence 1919-1921 -- Claremen who joined the Auxiliaries -- Claremen who joined the Black and Tans.

ISBN

• 9781856356138
• 1856356132

OCLC

• 318901474
• SCSB-11122903

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library