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Coogan has written an outstanding account...enhanced by well-chosen historic photographs, maps and documents."--Celtic Connection

On April 14, 1916, it all began--and 6 short but bloody days later, true Irish independence emerged from the ruins. Coogan's outstanding account of this seminal event provides a testament to a turning point in Irish history and to those who perished in the struggle. Born of the thwarted, democratically expressed desire for Home Rule--as well as political confusion--the Easter Uprising started when rebels seized a number of strong points in Dublin. The subsequent executions of the leaders, along with the arrest, court-martial, ...

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Coogan has written an outstanding account...enhanced by well-chosen historic photographs, maps and documents."--Celtic Connection

On April 14, 1916, it all began--and 6 short but bloody days later, true Irish independence emerged from the ruins. Coogan's outstanding account of this seminal event provides a testament to a turning point in Irish history and to those who perished in the struggle. Born of the thwarted, democratically expressed desire for Home Rule--as well as political confusion--the Easter Uprising started when rebels seized a number of strong points in Dublin. The subsequent executions of the leaders, along with the arrest, court-martial, and detention of 3500 people, won the insurgents sympathy and resulted in an overwhelming desire for freedom among the public.

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There being no shortage of books on the Easter Rising, this book must have been published for its pictures of fighters, damaged buildings, and typed orders. Viewing the current peace process through the legacy of the rising is the core of Coogan's (The IRA; Ireland Since the Rising) narrative. That legacy and the political extremists on both sides keep colliding, he writes, and when peace seems at hand another group claims the mantle of the IRA or the Orange Order and resists. Coogan ultimately touches on a more irresistible force than Easter 1916 the Catholics of Ulster are reproducing faster than the Protestants are; democracy should ultimately yield to demographics. In the meantime, this volume is bound and printed more like a coffee-table book than a history, so perhaps it would do better as a gift. An entertaining read but strictly for devotees. Robert Moore, Parexel Corp., Waltham, MA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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Dublin burned, British troops and Irish separatists exchanged gunfire and artillery shells, and about two hundred and thirty civilians were killed during Easter week in Ireland in 1916. As Tim Pat Coogan writes in 1916: The Easter Rising, the rebel leader James Connolly, injured and confined to the Irish Volunteer headquarters after a few days of bloody fighting, passed the time reading a detective novel. During a rare quiet moment, Connolly dryly remarked, "A book like this, plenty of rest and an insurrection -- all at the same time. This certainly is revolution de luxe." Out in the streets, his militia battled to take the city, fighting with a bravery that has been repeatedly eulogized since. Within a week, the group was forced to surrender, and, like most of the leaders of the rebellion, Connolly himself was executed.

Into this turbulent landscape Jamie O'Neill casts the heroes of his historical novel, At Swim, Two Boys, whose title is a play on the title of Flann O'Brien's landmark Irish comic novel At Swim-Two-Birds. This story takes place in the year leading up to the Easter Rising and investigates the complicated weave of alliances in Ireland; the two Dublin boys struggle not only with their political affiliations but with their religious and sexual identities.

W. B. Yeats spoke to Ireland's scars of strife, famously noting in "Easter, 1916" that, after the Rising, "All changed, changed utterly: / A terrible beauty is born." A new volume of Yeats's essays, Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth, examines ancient tales of the land -- an Ireland bewitched by "sociable fairies," the banshee, and the medieval warrior Cuchulain. In fables, Yeats writes, mortals are transformed into "perfect symbols of the sorrow and beauty and of the magnificence and penury of dreams.'' (Lauren Porcaro)

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  • ISBN-13: 9780753818527
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Group, Limited
  • Publication date: 5/28/2005
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 192
  • Sales rank: 566,752
  • Product dimensions: 7.76 (w) x 5.00 (h) x 0.63 (d)

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  • Posted February 20, 2010

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    Short but Dry

    1916 is far shorter than most of Coogan's work, likely because the Rising itself lasted only a week, whereas the Troubles (The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal and the Search for Peace) could be argued anywhere from thirty to fifty years to far longer and the IRA (The IRA) has been in existence in some form off and on for more than ninety years now. The length does not make it a good introduction to Irish history for the casual reader. It is dry, spare facts, related in a prose style that is nearly a time line of events constructed into short sentences and paragraphs.

    Of course, this is Coogan's style and an excellent one for straight history, which is exactly what 1916: The Easter Rising is. It is well-researched history, presented ably and backed up by reprinting many of his first-hand sources in the form of photos and orders. I was happily shocked to find a reprint of Padraig Pearse's signed surrender, for instance.

    As an avid Irish hobbyist historian, I loved it and respect Coogan immensely for not embellishing the facts with opinion (although as a Coogan reader I'm familiar with his political leanings, they don't overpower the narrative here) or flowery language. The casual reader, however would probably be better served by finding a more accessible account of the Rising to hold their interest. I would even offer 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion (Irish Century) by Morgan Llywelyn as a fictionalized account. As Llywelyn says, after all, "History tells how events happened. Fiction tells what it felt like."
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