Description

This is a gripping narrative of the most critical years in modern Ireland's history, from Charles Townshend. The protracted, terrible fight for independence pitted the Irish against the British and the Irish against other Irish. It was both a physical battle of shocking violence against a regime increasingly seen as alien and unacceptable and an intellectual battle for a new sort of country. The damage done, the betrayals and grim compromises put the new nation into a state of trauma for at least a generation, but at a nearly unacceptable cost the struggle ended: a new republic was born. Charles Townshend's Easter 1916 opened up the astonishing events around the Rising for a new generation and in The Republic he deals, with the same unflinchingly wish to get to the truth behind the legend, with the most critical years in Ireland's history. There has been a great temptation to view these years through the prisms of martyrology and good-and-evil. The picture painted by Townshend is far more nuanced and sceptical - but also never loses sight of the ordinary forms of heroism performed by Irish men and women trapped in extraordinary times.



Title: The Republic; The Fight for Irish Independence 1918 1923

Author: Charles Townshend

Published September 2013 by Allen Lane

ISBN: 9780713999839

Language: English

Series: None

Length: Hardcover, 560 pages




Uploaded using:
PleX's Upload Tool v2.6
Using the core upload module of the KATLoader v1.0.2.0

Description generated in: 1322ms