Independence Memories: A People's Portrait of the Early Days of the Irish Nation

A PEOPLE'S PORTRAIT OF A PERIOD OF MOMENTOUS CHANGE IN IRISH HISTORY.

Independence Memories is a fascinating social history, from living and inherited memory, of the period surrounding Irish Independence and the Civil War.

It was a time of violence, of death, of emigration, of families divided into pro- and anti-Treaty, Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera. Against a tapestry of safe houses and mountain hide outs, people fell in love, raised families and laid the foundations of the country we ...