Rebels
Subtitle: voices from the Easter Rising
By: Fearghal McGarry
Publisher: Penguin Ireland
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9781844882038
Subjects: Sources; Personal narratives; History
Description: In 1947 the Irish government started recording the experiences of those who took part in the fight for independence. Rebels, edited by one of Ireland's top young historians, brings the best of the surviving accounts of the Easter Rising together into a comprehensive, accessible account of the insurrection.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi).
Table of contents: title: Unknown depths : politicisation; title: White heat : revolutionary politics; title: An army of boys : Na Fianna Éireann; title: Armed at last : volunteering; title: England's difficulty : war; title: A place in history : the rising in Dublin; title: Circle of fire : the battle for Dublin; title: Left in a fog : the rising in the provinces; title: The saddest parting : surrender; title: Dying for Ireland : punishment.