Portrait of a Rebel Father

Nora Connolly O'Brien

Verlag: The Talbot Press Limited, Dublin, 1935

Beschreibung

Original green cloth with gilt titles on the spine. 327 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled foxing on the first and last few page, Illustrated Frontispiece portrait of James Connolly. Boards slightly rubbed and faded with time consistent with age but remain firm and intact. Usual toning and age appreciation should be expected. When the writer of these pages was still a child, she accompanied her father on many of his lecture tours in Great Britain and America, and attended his meetings. She has been able to give us what no one else could the story of the Irish patriot s life as seen from within by one who shared. Nora Connolly O Brien was the second daughter of James Connolly, she was a founder member of Young Republican Party, the female branch of the Fianna. After the execution of her father following the Easter Rising in 1916, she became a life long supporter of the republican movement and of the Irish left wing. In 1918, she toured the US lecturing on the Rising. She took part in the Irish War of Independence and was briefly imprisoned during the Irish Civil War. In 1922, she married Seamus O Brien. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers TSB8790

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Portrait of a Rebel Father

Verlag: The Talbot Press Limited, Dublin

Erscheinungsdatum: 1935

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: 1st Edition