Title: Dublin 1916
Subtitle: the siege of the GPO
Description: Taken over by the Irish Volunteers on Easter Monday 1916 and held for nearly a week, the rebels finally surrendered the GPO to the Crown forces after heavy gun bombardment, and the ensuing conflagration reduced it to an empty shell and destroyed much of the center of the city. Clair Wills' fascinating book also explores the twists and turns that the myth of the GPO has undergone in the last century. It has stood for sacrifice and treachery, national unity and divisive violence, for the future and the past.
Subjects: History, Ireland, General Post Office (Dublin, Ireland), Ireland, history, easter rising, 1916, Dublin (ireland), history
Time periods: Easter Rising, 1916