Rebels & Informers. Stirrings of Irish Independence. - KNOX, OLIVER
stirrings of Irish independence
KORTE INHOUD
The Society of Irishmen was founded in Belfast, with the dream to bury religious divisions, end the rule of the antiquated and corrupt Ascendary centred on Dublin Castle, and sever all connections with England. From the first, the Society was riddled with informers while the government played cat-and-mouse. Most of the Society's leaders were scattered or banished, and of the book's four principal rebels - Wolfe Tone, Hamilton Rowan, Drennan and Lord Edward Fitzgerald - the latter gave the movement, as it headed towards the doomed rebellion of 1798, flourishes of romantic but hopelessly inadequate leadership.
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John Murray: London, 1997. CLoth with dustwrapper, 304 pp., with notes, bibliography and index, with 76 black-and-white plates, 16x24x2,5 cm, VG/VG condition. [Categorie: Geschiedenis] [Auteur: Knox, Oliver.] [Pagina's: 304] [Jaar: 1997] [Titel: Rebels & Informers: Stirrings of Irish Independence.]
Original publisher's black paper covered boards, gilt lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, 8vo: xvi, 304pp., illustrated, footnotes, chronology, epilogue, notes, bibliography, index. Very fine copy. Irish uprisings have produced heroes and traitors, rebels and informers, men fierce and foolish, blind and far-seeing, in equal measure. Most of them share wit, mockery and the gift of making the language dance. In Wolfe Tone, Edward Fitzgerald, Hamilton Rowan, William Drennan, Leonard McNally, we see glimps...
