1916 portraits and lives /

1916 portraits and lives / Nineteen sixteen portraits and lives edited by Lawrence William White and James Quinn ; introduction and afterword by Patrick Maume ; illustrated by David Rooney. - Dublin : Royal Irish Academy, 2015. - xvi, 367 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This is a selection of 40 articles from the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Irish Biography, dealing with 42 people whose careers, in one way or another, were deeply involved with the Easter rising of 1916. The biographies include insurgents, women involved, nationalist leaders and figures in the British military and administration.

9781908996381 (hbk.) : £28.00


Ireland--History--Easter Rising, 1916--Biography.

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