Voices from the Easter Rising: Firsthand Accounts of Ireland's 1916 Rebellion

by Joseph McKenna

For a week in April 1916, 2,000 Irish Volunteers rose up in armed rebellion against the British Empire in a bid to establish an independent Irish state. Tracing the establishment of the various organizations involved, this account of the Easter Rising provides a day to day narrative by those who took part, along with personal accounts of the trial, the execution of the rebel leaders and the imprisonment of the surviving Volunteers. Atrocities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147666823X
• ISBN13: 9781476668239
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher