6/28/2023 0 Comments Fearghal mcgarry the rising![]() ![]() ![]() This enormously engaging book is 1916 from the bottom up, as experienced by the ordinary men and women who took part in it. McGarry’s Easter Rising is a relatively unfamilar one. It is this material that gives his book its rich and fascinating texture. ![]() Many were previously utilised by Charles Townshend in his general account of the Rising, published in 2005, but McGarry’s use of them goes far beyond that of his predecessor. The key condition attached to the bureau’s work was that the material it collected would not be released until all of those who had contributed testimonies were dead: consequently they were not released until 2003. ![]() What makes The Rising stand out from its competitors (at least according to the blurb) is that it uses the vast corpus of testimonies collected by the Bureau of Military History in the 1940s and 1950s to illuminate the experience of the ‘rank and file’ who took part in the events of Easter week 1916. And Fearghal McGarry has written a very good one indeed. Published in 20th-century / Contemporary History, Book Reviews, Irish Republican Brotherhood / Fenians, Issue 6 (Nov/Dec 2010), Reviews, Revolutionary Period 1912-23, Volume 18, World War Iĭo we need another book on the Easter Rising? There can be no harm in a good one. Ireland: Easter 1916 Fearghal McGarry (Oxford University Press, £18.99) ISBN 9780192801869 ![]()
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