1916 : one hundred years of Irish independence : from the Easter Rising to the present / Tim Pat Coogan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coogan, Tim Pat, 1935- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Ireland--History--Easter Rising, 1916--Influence.

Ireland.

Ireland--History--1922-.

Ireland--Politics and government--1922-.

Politics and government.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

329 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Other Title:

Nineteen sixteen

One hundred years of Irish independence

Place of Publication:

New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2016.

Summary:

"The 1916 Easter Rising and its aftermath changed Ireland for ever. The British government's execution of 14 republican rebels transformed a group hitherto perceived as cranks and troublemakers into national heroes. Those who avoided the British firing squads of May 1916 went on to plan a new - and ultimately successful - struggle for Ireland's independence, shaping their country's destiny for the century to come. But what sort of country did they create? And to what extent does post-1916 Ireland measure up to the hopes and aspirations of 'MacDonagh and MacBride / And Connolly and Pearse'? Best-selling historian Tim Pat Coogan offers a strongly personal perspective on the Irish century that followed the Rising - charting a flawed history that is marked as much by complacency, corruption and institutional and clerical abuse, as it is by the sacrifices and nation-building achievements of the Republic's founding fathers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The road to the rising

Towards independence

The treaty saga

The culture of the time

The age of Dev

The generation game

A world of troubles

Towards peace

Disillusionment

Stonewalled

Institutional abuse

The corruption of a nation

The golden circle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781250110596

1250110599

OCLC:

952195945