Signatories

by Thomas Kilroy, Marina Carr, Emma Donoghue, et al.

2016 marks the centenary of the Easter Rising, known as "the poets' rebellion", for among their leaders were university scholars of English, history and Irish. The ill-fated revolt lasted six days and ended ignominiously with the rebels rounded up and their leaders sentenced to death. The signatories of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic must have known that the Rising would be crushed, must have dreaded the carnage and death, must have foreseen...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910820105
• ISBN13: 9781910820100
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University College Dublin Press
• Length: 140 Pages