Dublin 1916
Subtitle: the siege of the GPO
By: Clair Wills.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780674036338
Subjects: General Post Office (Dublin, Ireland) -- History; Ireland -- History -- Easter Rising, 1916
Description: "This book unravels the events in and around the GPO [General Post Office] during the Easter Rising of 1916. Drawing on participant and eyewitness accounts, diaries, and newspaper reports, Clair Wills recreates the harrowing moments that transformed the GPO from an emblem of nineteenth-century British power and civil government, to an embattled barricade, and finally to a national symbol."--Inside jacket.
Notes: Includes index.

First published in the United Kingdom in 2009 by Profile Books, London.
Table of contents: title: Political background to the Rising; title: Introduction : in the name of God and of the dead generations; title: Occupation; title: Destruction; title: Reconstruction; title: Commemoration; title: What stalked through the Post Office; title: Conclusion : the front room of the nation.