ISBN: 9780946755257 - revising the rising (2 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Pp.x, 142. Anniversaries are often problematic, and few in recent times have been as loaded with ambiguities and contradictions as the seventy-fifth anniversary of 1916. The intepretation of this key event in modern Irish history has prompted fractures and disputes among historians, politicians and citizens-but, outside the realms of embattled historiography, open and general discussion has been curiously muted, not to say inhibited. There are those of us who feel that, as a reaction, amnesia-private or communal-is both unhealthy and dangerous. Hence this book. -from the Preface.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. A clean unmarked copy.