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

by Coogan, Tim Pat, 1935- author.

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

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

Ireland -- History -- 1922-

Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1922-

9781250110596 (hardcover) :

1250110599 (hardcover)

329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

First U.S. edition.

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.

"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"--

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