The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution

by Maurice Walsh

The Anglo-Irish war of 1919-1921 was an international historical landmark: the first successful revolution against British rule and the beginning of the end of the Empire. But the Irish revolutionaries did not win their struggle on the battlefield - their key victory was in mobilising public opinion in Britain and the rest of the world. Journalists and writers flocked to Ireland, where the increasingly brutal conflict was seen as the crucible for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184511714X
• ISBN13: 9781845117146
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.2"