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The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence

Charles Townshend
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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.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
560 pages
Publication:
2013
Publisher:
Allen Lane/Penguin Books Ltd.
Edition:
First Edition (U.K.)
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0713999837
ISBN13:
9780713999839
kindle Asin:
B00F10Z4HS

The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence

Charles Townshend
4.00/5 (82 ratings)
Read Download
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.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
560 pages
Publication:
2013
Publisher:
Allen Lane/Penguin Books Ltd.
Edition:
First Edition (U.K.)
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0713999837
ISBN13:
9780713999839
kindle Asin:
B00F10Z4HS

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