Book description
In 1947 the Bureau of Military History was established by the Irish
government to record the experiences of those who took part in the fight
for independence. In 1959, the results of this research - including
1,773 'witness statements' - were placed in 83 steel boxes and locked
into a strongroom in Government Buildings.
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 and thrillingly readable telling of that
much-debated insurrection, the first in a series of events that brought
about Irish independence. From the witnesses' recollections of their
schooling and other childhood influences to their accounts of what
happened at Easter 1916, Rebels
tells this famous story in a new and exhilarating way. Fearghal
McGarry is Senior Lecturer in History at Queen's University, Belfast. He
is the author of Irish Politics and the Spanish Civil War
, Frank Ryan
, Eoin O'Duffy: A Self-Made Hero
, and The Rising
, a scholarly history.
