A Terrible Beauty Is Born
Title | A Terrible Beauty Is Born PDF eBook |
Author | W. B. Yeats |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2016-03-03 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0241251532 |
'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...' By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.
"Easter, 1916" and Other Poems
Title | "Easter, 1916" and Other Poems PDF eBook |
Author | William Butler Yeats |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 83 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0486297713 |
Compilation of all the poems from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) and Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) includes "The Second Coming," "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," many others.
Easter 1916
Title | Easter 1916 PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Townshend |
Publisher | Penguin Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Ireland |
ISBN | 9780141982472 |
Townshend traces the dramatic events of the Easter Rebellion in Dublin in 1916, the actions and aims of the rebels, the British response to the revolt and the consequences, politically and culturally, of the uprising.
Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916
Title | Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916 PDF eBook |
Author | William Irwin Thompson |
Publisher | SteinerBooks |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1584205415 |
We know from our literary histories that there was a movement called the Irish Literary Renaissance, and that Yeats was at its head. We know from our political histories that there is now a Republic of Ireland because of a nationalistic movement that, militarily, began with the insurrection of Easter Week, 1916. But what do these two movements have to do with one another?... Because I came to history with literary eyes, I could not help seeing history in terms and shapes of imaginative experience. Thus Movement, Myth, and Image came to be the way in which the nature of the insurrection appeared to me. This method of analyzing historical event as if it were a work of art is not altogether as inappropriate as it might seem when the historical event happens to be a revolution. The Irish revolutionaries lived as if they were in a work of art, and this inability to tell the difference between sober reality and the realm of imagination is perhaps one very important characteristic of a revolutionary. The tragedy of actuality comes from the fact that when, in a revolution, history is made momentarily into a work of art, human beings become the material that must be ordered, molded, or twisted into shape. (from the preface)
Children of the Rising
Title | Children of the Rising PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Duffy |
Publisher | Hachette Ireland |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 2015-10-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1473617049 |
Children of the Rising is the first ever account of the young lives violently lost during the week of the 1916 Rising: long-forgotten and never commemorated, until now. Boys, girls, rich, poor, Catholic, Protestant - no child was guaranteed immunity from the bullet and bomb that week, in a place where teeming tenement life existed side by side with immense wealth. Drawing on extensive original research, along with interviews with relatives, Joe Duffy creates a compelling picture of these forty lives, along with one of the cut and thrust of city life between the two canals a century ago. This gripping story of Dublin and its people in 1916 will add immeasurably to our understanding of the Easter Rising. Above all, it honours the forgotten lives, largely buried in unmarked graves, of those young people who once called Dublin their home.
The Rising
Title | The Rising PDF eBook |
Author | Fearghal McGarry |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0192801864 |
Tells the story of the Easter Rising from the perspective of the rank and file revolutionaries, based on a recently-discovered collection of over 1700 eye-witness statements.
1916: The Easter Rising
Title | 1916: The Easter Rising PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Pat Coogan |
Publisher | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2016-07-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1474605087 |
The Easter Rising began at 12 noon on 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' illegal defiance of the democratically expressed wish of the Irish electorate for Home Rule; and of confusion, mishap and disorganisation, compounded by a split within the Volunteer leadership. Tim Pat Coogan introduces the major players, themes and outcomes of a drama that would profoundly affect twentieth-century Irish history. Not only is this the story of a turning point in Ireland's struggle for freedom, but also a testament to the men and women of courage and conviction who were prepared to give their lives for what they believed was right.