The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic

by Ruth Dudley Edwards

Book Overview

On the morning of Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven men who made up the Military Council of the secret Irish Republican Brotherhood gathered in Dublin's Liberty Hall. By noon, the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, in which they declared themselves to be the provisional government of an entity that claimed the allegiance of every Irishman and Irishwoman, had been taken to the printers. Each man knew full well that in putting his name to this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780748655
• ISBN13: 9781780748658
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: ONEWorld Publications
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"