The Irish Revolution has long been mythologized in American culture but seldom understood. Too often, the story of Irish independence and its grinding aftermath in the early part of the twentieth century has been told only within a parochial Anglo-Irish context. Now, in the critically acclaimed Bitter Freedom, Maurice Walsh, with a novelist's eye for detailing lives in extremis (Feargal Keane, Prospect), places revolutionary Ireland within the...
Related Subjects
History