The Republic
by Charles Townshend
ISBN: 9780141030043
Published: 2014
A gripping narrative of the most critical years in modern Ireland's history - from Charles Townshend, author of Easter 1916 TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 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...
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