On Easter Monday 1916, while much of Dublin holidayed at the seaside and placed bets at the horse races, a disciplined group of Irish Volunteers seized the city s General Post Office in what would become the defining act of rebellion against British rule and the most significant single event in modern Irish history. By week s end, the rebels had surrendered, and the siege had left the once magnificent GPO an empty shell and turned it into the most famous and deeply symbolic building in all of Ireland.
This book unravels the events in and around the GPO during the Easter Rising of...
On Easter Monday 1916, while much of Dublin holidayed at the seaside and placed bets at the horse races, a disciplined group of Irish Volunteers s...
