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Enduring the Most: Life and Death of Terence MacSwiney
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Product Description
Terence MacSwiney’s seventy-three-day hunger strike in Brixton prison in 1920 marked a turning point in Ireland’s struggle for independence. His courage and purpose made a profound impression on Irish and world opinion, and still echo through political life. A member of the Provisional Government, Lord Mayor of Cork and Commander of the Cork No. 1 Brigade of the IRA, MacSwiney was one of the leading activists of his generation. He is also a writer of plays and political works, including The Principles of Freedom, and left a body of writing that encompassed poetry, political philosophy and ideas for Ireland's economic development. Francis J. Costello’s bestselling biography, the first to have full access to the MacSwiney family papers, creates a rounded portrait of MacSwiney’s character and beliefs. it explores his life in all its complexity, and is at once the story of one history’s martyrs and a record of Ireland’s revolutionary years.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1294895 in Books
- Published on: 1996-02-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 253 pages
Editorial Reviews
Sunday Independent
Francis J. Costello’s comprehensive biogaphy is most welcome... It will surely remain the definitive work.
The Irish Times
... a transatlantic and fresh revision; it offers a psychology that explains a history; it illuminates an aspect of our present as well as our past.
