num_pages: 203
description: All The Risings brings together the nine principal occasions in Irelands history on which resistance was made to the dominance of those who controlled the countrys destiny. The book takes us from the period of the Battle of Clontarf in Dublin in the year 1014 when Brian Borus forces took on the Viking invaders up to the time in 1949 when Ireland then styled the 'Irish Free State was declared a republic. Along the way we learn of such crucial conflicts as the Battle of the Boyne the 1798 Rebellion and of course the 1916 rising which directly contributed to the setting up of an independent Irish parliament.
language: English
title: All the Risings Ireland 1014-1916
publisher: Currach Press