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Citizen Lord : Edward Fitzgerald, 1763-1798
Tells the story of the Irish revolutionary, Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Son of a duke, heir to estates and influence, Lord Edward died in a Dublin gaol, a rebel and a traitor. The book looks at how this happened, and explores the hidden relationships in his life.
Ernie O'Malley : IRA intellectual
Ernie O'Malley (1897–1957) was one of the most talented and colourful of
modern Irish republicans. An important IRA leader in the 1916–1923 Irish
Revolution, this bookish gunman subsequently became a distinguished intellectual,
and the author of two classic autobiographical accounts of the revolutionary period:
On Another Man's Wound and The Singing Flame. His
post-revolutionary life took on a bohemian flavour. Travelling extensively in Europe
and America, he mixed with a wide range of artistic and literary figures, and
devoted himself to a variety of writing projects. In his IRA career he mixed with
revolutionaries such as Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera; in his post-IRA years
his friends included Samuel Beckett, Louis MacNeice, John Wayne, and John Ford. This
thematic biography draws on previously unseen archival sources, and introduces
O'Malley to both scholarly and general readers. O'Malley's post-revolutionary life
was as turbulent as his IRA years, and illuminates many persistent themes of Irish
history, ranging from the origins and culture of militant republicanism and the
complexities of Anglo–Irish relations to the development of intellectual
and artistic life in twentieth-century Ireland.
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Éamon de Valera : a will to power
\"Éamon de Valera embodies Irish independence much as de Gaulle personifies French resistance and Churchill exemplifies British resolve. Ronan Fanning offers a reappraisal of the man who remains the most famous, and most divisive, political figure in modern Irish history, reconciling de Valera's shortcomings with a recognition of his achievement as the statesman who single-handedly severed Ireland's last ties to England. Born in New York in 1882, de Valera was sent away to be raised by his mother's family in Ireland, where a solitary upbringing forged the extraordinary self-sufficiency that became his hallmark. Conservative in his youth, he changed his name from Edward to Éamon when he became a member of the Gaelic League, the Irish language revival movement, in 1908. Five years later, he joined the Irish Volunteers, a nationalist military organization, and participated in the 1916 Easter Rising. Escaping execution afterward, he used his prestige as the senior surviving rebel officer to become the leader of Ireland's revolutionary nationalists. But the iron will that was usually his strength became a fateful weakness when he stubbornly rejected the Anglo-Irish Treaty, sparking the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923. De Valera's vision for Ireland was blinkered: he had little interest in social and economic progress. But without him, Ireland might never have achieved independence. The nation was spared decades of unproductive debate on the pros and cons of remaining tied to Britain, and by 1973 it had enough self-confidence to surrender some of its sovereignty by joining the European Community.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Eoin O'Duffy
Eoin O'Duffy was one of the most controversial figures of modern Irish history. A leader of the Irish revolution, and protégé of Michael Collins, he commanded the Irish police and defence forces, before emerging as Ireland's leading fascist politician in the 1930s. A crusading moralist, obsessed with the need to counter public immorality, and a clo.
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Robert Emmet
Patrick Geoghegan re-examines the facts of Emmet's life and draws on new material from archives in Britain, France, the United States, and Ireland to show how Emmet's plans for rebellion, although undermined by internal disagreements, were much more ingenious than previously believed.
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Ireland's revolutionary diplomat : a biography of Leopold Kerney
\"Leopold Kerney was one of the most important Irish ambassadors to several European nations during the tumultuous 1920s and 1930s, and was accordingly drawn into much of the strife and diplomatic intrigue of that era. He is the subject of this book, as the work and life of Kerney is scrutinized and contextualized. Kerney had dealings in Paris during World War I, navigated a complex diplomatic climate in Franco-era Spain, and had perilous encounters with German military intelligence during World War II\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Eva Gore-Booth
This is the first dedicated biography of the extraordinary Irish woman, Eva Gore-Booth. Gore-Booth rejected her aristocratic heritage choosing to live and work amongst the poorest classes in industrial Manchester. Her work on behalf of barmaids, circus acrobats, flower sellers and pit-brow lasses is traced in this book. During one impressive campaign Gore-Booth orchestrated the defeat of Winston Churchill. Gore-Booth published volumes of poetry, philosophical prose and plays, becoming a respected and prolific author of her time and part of W.B. Yeats' literary circle. The story of Gore-Booth's.
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Revolutionary lives : Constance and Casimir Markievicz
\"Constance Markievicz (1868-1927), born to the privileged Protestant upper class in Ireland, embraced suffrage before scandalously leaving for a bohemian life in London and then Paris. She would become known for her roles as politician and Irish revolutionary nationalist. Her husband, Casimir Dunin Markievicz (1874-1932), a painter, playwright, and theater director, was a Polish noble who would eventually join the Russian Imperial Army to fight on behalf of Polish freedom during World War I. Revolutionary Lives offers the first dual biography of these two prominent European activists and artists. Tracing the Markieviczes' entwined and impassioned trajectories, biographer Lauren Arrington sheds light on the avant-garde cultures of London, Paris, and Dublin, and the rise of anti-imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing from new archival material, including previously untranslated newspaper articles, Arrington explores the interests and concerns of Europeans invested in suffrage, socialism, and nationhood. Unlike previous works, Arrington's book brings Casimir Markievicz into the foreground of the story and explains how his liberal imperialism and his wife's socialist republicanism arose from shared experiences, even as their politics remained distinct. Arrington also shows how Constance did not convert suddenly to Irish nationalism, but was gradually radicalized by the Irish Revival. Correcting previous depictions of Constance as hero or hysteric, Arrington presents her as a serious thinker influenced by political and cultural contemporaries. Revolutionary Lives places the exciting biographies of two uniquely creative and political individuals and spouses in the wider context of early twentieth-century European history\"-- Provided by publisher.
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