Dublin 1916 by Clair Wills
It was taken over by the Irish Volunteers on Easter Monday 1916 and held for nearly a week. But the rebels finally surrendered the GPO to the Crown forces after heavy gun bombardment, and the ensuing conflagration reduced the building to an empty shell and destroyed much of the centre of the city. Clair Wills' rich and rewarding book recounts the dramatic events of Easter Week. But she also tracks the obsession with Dublin's iconic edifice through literature, film and art, exploring the twists and turns that the myth of the GPO has undergone in the last century. It has stood for sacrifice and treachery, national unity and divisive violence, for the future and the past.
She is to be congratulated on retelling that narrative with originality, economy and erudition-- Brenda Maddox * Literary Review *
Will's possesses a sharp eye for the quiddity of the everyday, and a marvellous ear for quotation ... her stylish, suggestive and highly intelligent book provides a riveting read -- Roy Foster * Guardian *
Wills guides us expertly from one commemorative stepping stone to another -- Liam Kennedy * BBC History *
Comprehensive in its details of the battle which raged in the city centre and particularly good on its aftermath... -- George Byrne * Dublin Evening Herald *
An excellent cultural history that gives due emphasis to the "literary elements of the rising." -- Ian Pindar * Guardian *
The Easter Rising is analysed with verve in this absorbing account which also considers the event's repercussions on subsequent generations. -- N/A * Observer *
Magnificent. -- Julian Fleming * Sunday Business Post *
In the run-up to the 1916 centenary you are going to be hit with a virtual avalanche of books... few will be as definitive as this... A dispassionate, scholarly, yet effortless read. -- Tom Widger * Sunday Tribune *
A thrilling account. -- John Coulter * Tribune magazine *
Will's possesses a sharp eye for the quiddity of the everyday, and a marvellous ear for quotation ... her stylish, suggestive and highly intelligent book provides a riveting read -- Roy Foster * Guardian *
Wills guides us expertly from one commemorative stepping stone to another -- Liam Kennedy * BBC History *
Comprehensive in its details of the battle which raged in the city centre and particularly good on its aftermath... -- George Byrne * Dublin Evening Herald *
An excellent cultural history that gives due emphasis to the "literary elements of the rising." -- Ian Pindar * Guardian *
The Easter Rising is analysed with verve in this absorbing account which also considers the event's repercussions on subsequent generations. -- N/A * Observer *
Magnificent. -- Julian Fleming * Sunday Business Post *
In the run-up to the 1916 centenary you are going to be hit with a virtual avalanche of books... few will be as definitive as this... A dispassionate, scholarly, yet effortless read. -- Tom Widger * Sunday Tribune *
A thrilling account. -- John Coulter * Tribune magazine *
Clair Wills is Professor of Irish Literature at Queen Mary University of London. She has published widely on Irish literature and culture, and is the author of Reading Paul Muldoon (1998), and the acclaimed That Neutral Island: A History of Ireland during the Second World War (2007), which won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2007.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846680618 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846680611 |
| Title | Dublin 1916 |
| Author | Clair Wills |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-03-25 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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