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To speak of Easter week : family memories of the Irish revolution / Hélène O'Keeffe.

Title
To speak of Easter week : family memories of the Irish revolution / Hélène O'Keeffe.
Author
O'Keeffe, Hélène
Publication
  • Cork Mercier Press, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Description
288 pages : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm.
Summary
'To Speak of Easter Week' offers a broad and human perspective on the Easter Rising and its aftermath, using oral history recordings from the families of those involved and offering something new and unique to the wealth of material about 1916 already on the market.
Alternative Title
Family memories of the Irish revolution
Subject
  • Easter Rising (Ireland : 1916)
  • 1916
  • Ireland > History > Easter Rising, 1916 > Personal narratives
  • Ireland
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Personal narratives
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-283) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: individual Truths -- Selective Memory -- The Burden of Inheritance -- Memories in Context: Ireland 1890 -- 1923 -- The Easter Rising in Dublin -- Aftermath -- Reorganisation -- The War of Independence -- The Treaty and Civil War -- Long Shadows: Executed Leaders -- Michael Mallin -- Edward Daly -- Con Colbert -- Joseph Mary Plunkett -- Eamonn Ceannt -- Thomas MacDonagh -- Patrick Pearse -- James Connolly -- `No Hero Stories': The GPO Garrison -- Eamonn Bulfin and Frank Burke -- Thomas McEvoy -- Diarmuid Lynch -- Writing The Rule Book: The Four Courts Garrison -- John and Thomas O'Connor, Jack and Frank Shouldice -- William Archer -- Charles and Thomas Bevan -- Paddy O'Daly -- Bloodlines: Death In Battle -- Sean Connolly -- Michael J. O'Rahilly -- Henry and Thomas Coyle -- Michael Mulvihill, Patrick Shortis and Patrick O'Connor -- Francis Brennan.
ISBN
  • 9781781172216
  • 1781172218
LCCN
  • ^^2015462285
  • 60002053587
OCLC
  • 931108163
  • SCSB-12268276
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library