Showing Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion by Charles Townshend

Paperback. Pub Date: 2006 Pages: 464 Publisher: Penguin Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other itish city. Comparable to istol or Liverpool and part of a Complex deep-rooted itish world. MANY of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule. but there remained a vast and conflicting range of visions of that future: far more immediate was the unfolding disaster of the First World War that had put home rule 'issues on ice for the duration. The devastating events of that Easter changed everything. Both the rising itself and - even more significantly - the ferocious itish response ended any sense at all that Dublin could be anything other than the capital of an independent country. as an entire nation turned away in revulsion from the itish artillery and executions. As we approach the 90th anniversary of the rebellion. it is time for a n...