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Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a vast and conflicting range of visions of that future. This title presents an account of what really happened over those fateful few days.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #339757 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

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Review
Enthralling and definitive ... he writes with soldierly clarity but also delivers an emotional punch. -- Foster, Roy Times Literary Supplement The definitive account... The book is fantastically detailed yet wonderfully readable. -- John Banville Guardian Authoritative and compelling... He writes with great clarity and has mined a formidable array of primary source material. Irish Times Townshend is the first author to use the full compendium of the Irish Bureau of Military History records. Historywire.Com Vivid, authoritative and gripping, Easter 1916 is a major work. Word Power Remarkably evenhanded and insightful... The definitive study of the topic for all students of Irish History. Choice The author may or may not have seen active military service but his interpretation of small unit actions and close-in fighting is sharp and realistic. -- John H. Carroll Catholic News Service Peeling back the mythology to uncover the history. -- Martin Zimmerman San Diego Union-Tribune Summarizes some forty years of scholarship on the topic, adding its own dramatic flair and insights... A quite vivid reenactment. Library Bookwatch Marvelously rendered... Townshend strips away ... myth and tells the real story, which intensifies with the truth. Blue Ridge Business Journal Townshend provides the most comprehensive and considered account of the rising, set in its time and place. -- Paul O'Brien Socialist Review Anyone interested in Irish history, of whatever political views, should be grateful to [Townshend] for pulling this material together and ... for the wealth of detail. Livejournal Easter 1916 brings to life the group of remarkable men and women whose actions changed their nation forever. -- Mitchell, Mark Newsfromnowhere.Org This is a crisply written, balanced, and well-organized study. Journal Of Military History Townshend's is a dramatic story excellently told...that brings the reader back on the streets of the capital as a series of events changed forever how people on the island of Ireland would live their lives. Dublin Sunday Times [Easter 1916] is not an under-studied topic, but Townshend handles it with a mastery of the background and the sources that makes his work exceptional. -- Michael Howard Times Literary Supplement

About the Author
Charles Townshend's previous publications include Terrorism: A very short Introduction, Political Violence in Ireland and The British Campaign in Ireland, 1919-1921.