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1916 One Hundred Years of Irish Independence From the Easter Rising to the Present by Tim Pat Coogan
Category: European History
There's before 1916 and then there's after. Between them lies the Easter Rising, when Irish republicans took up arms against British rule and changed the course of their country's history forever. For though the resistance failed, it failed gloriously; the rebels were no longer a group of cranks and tro ...Show more
1916: The Easter Rising by Tim Pat Coogan
Category: History
The Easter Rising began at 12 noon, 24 April, 1916 and lasted for six short but bloody days, resulting in the deaths of innocent civilians, the destruction of many parts of Dublin, and the true beginning of Irish independence. The 1916 Rising was born out of the Conservative and Unionist parties' illega ...Show more
1916: The Morning After by Tim Pat Coogan
Category: History
The 1916 Easter Rising and its aftermath changed Ireland for ever. The British government's execution of 14 republican rebels transformed a group hitherto perceived as cranks and troublemakers into national heroes. Those who avoided the British firing squads of May 1916 went on to plan a new - and ultim ...Show more
1916: The Mornings After by Tim Pat Coogan
Category: European History
The story of the traumatic aftermath of Ireland's Easter Rising of 1916, and of the emergence of two Irish states – one green, one orange – from the embers of bloody conflict. The 1916 Easter Rising and its aftermath changed Ireland for ever. The British government's execution of 14 republican rebels tr ...Show more
De Valera by TIM PAT COOGAN
Category: History
The history of Ireland for much of the Twentieth century is the history of Eamon De Valera. From the 1916 Rising, the troubled Treaty negotiations and the Civil War, right through to his retirement after longer in power than any other twentieth century leader, de Valera has both defined and divided Irel ...Show more
Ireland in the 20th Century by Tim Pat Coogan
Category: History
Tim Pat Coogan's biographies of Michael Collins and DeValera and his studies of the IRA, the Troubles and the Irish Diaspora have transformed our understanding of contemporary Ireland, and all have been massive bestsellers. Now he has produced a major history of Ireland in the twentieth century. Coverin ...Show more
Ireland in the 20th Century by Tim Pat Coogan
Category: unmapped
Ireland's bestselling popular historian tells the story of contemporary Ireland- controversial, authoritative and highly readable.Tim Pat Coogan's biographies of Michael Collins and DeValera and his studies of the IRA, the Troubles and the Irish Diaspora have transformed our understanding of contemporar ...Show more
Michael Collins by Tim Pat Coogan
Category: History
When President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord Birkenhead, 'I may have signed my actual death warrant.' And in August 1922 during the Irish Civil War, that prophecy came true - Collins was shot and killed by a fellow Irishman in a ...Show more
The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy by Tim Pat Coogan
Category: History
During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland's citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger. Waves of hungry peasants fled across the Atlantic to the United States, with so many dying en ...Show more
The GAA and the War of Independence by Tim Pat Coogan
Category: History
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) was founded in 1884 to promote Irish identity and revive the traditional sports of hurling, football and handball. After the turn of the century, the GAA became politicized, its club committees infiltrated by members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. As Ireland d ...Show more
The GAA and the War of Independence by Tim Pat Coogan
Category: Sports and Hobbies
Founded in 1884 to promote Irish identity and revive the traditional sports of hurling, football and handball, the GAA enjoyed an intimate relationship with the nationalist movement from the turn of the twentieth century onwards. In 1914, the Irish Volunteers drilled with hurley sticks in the absence of ...Show more