The 1916 Diaries of an Irish Rebel and a British Soldier

The 1916 Diaries of an Irish Rebel and a British Soldier
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Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 9781781173022
ISBN-13 : 1781173028
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Book Synopsis The 1916 Diaries of an Irish Rebel and a British Soldier by : Mick O'Farrell

Download or read book The 1916 Diaries of an Irish Rebel and a British Soldier written by Mick O'Farrell and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the unpublished diaries of two men writing under fire on the streets of Dublin in April 1916. In Jacob's factory, Volunteer Seosamh de BrĂșn wrote in his tiny diary about guard duties and a bicycle sortie to help de Valera, during which a sniper killed one of the cyclists. Meanwhile, across the Liffey, British soldier Samuel Lomas wrote in his own diary of building barricades across Moore Street and participating in the executions of Pearse, Clarke and MacDonagh, giving new insights into the rebellion's grim closing days. Mick O'Farrell brilliantly juxtaposes these two accounts, including fascimilies that show through deteriorating handwriting the increasing pressure the diarists were under, to give a dramatic account of how ordinary participants experienced the events of Easter week.


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