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03743aam a2200409 i 4500 001 984C9EFEE9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170203020341 008 160620t20162015nyuaf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016028518 020 $a 1250110599 020 $a 9781250110596 035 $a (OCoLC)952195945 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d VTL $d UOK $d FM0 $d VP@ $d YDX $d CZA $d YDX $d ZLM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ie--- 050 00 $a DA963 C628 2016 100 1 $a Coogan, Tim Pat, $d 1935- $e author. 245 10 $a 1916 : $b one hundred years of Irish independence : from the Easter Rising to the present / $c Tim Pat Coogan. 246 3 $a Nineteen sixteen 246 30 $a One hundred years of Irish independence 250 $a First U.S. edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, $c 2016. 300 $a 329 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 505 0 $a The road to the rising -- Towards independence -- The treaty saga -- The culture of the time -- The age of Dev -- The generation game -- A world of troubles -- Towards peace -- Disillusionment -- Stonewalled -- Institutional abuse -- The corruption of a nation -- The golden circle. 520 $a "The 1916 Easter Rising and its aftermath changed Ireland for ever. The British government's execution of 14 republican rebels transformed a group hitherto perceived as cranks and troublemakers into national heroes. Those who avoided the British firing squads of May 1916 went on to plan a new - and ultimately successful - struggle for Ireland's independence, shaping their country's destiny for the century to come. But what sort of country did they create? And to what extent does post-1916 Ireland measure up to the hopes and aspirations of 'MacDonagh and MacBride / And Connolly and Pearse'? Best-selling historian Tim Pat Coogan offers a strongly personal perspective on the Irish century that followed the Rising - charting a flawed history that is marked as much by complacency, corruption and institutional and clerical abuse, as it is by the sacrifices and nation-building achievements of the Republic's founding fathers"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "There's before 1916 and then there's after. Between them lies the Easter Rising, when Irish republicans took up arms against British rule and changed the course of their country's history forever. For though the resistance failed, it failed gloriously; the rebels were no longer a group of cranks and troublemakers in the public eye, but martyrs and national heroes, their example set the way for others and their mission lived on through the century to come. But what sort of country did the Rising create? And how does post-1916 Ireland compare with the aspirations of the rebellionÌs leaders, the hopes of Thomas MacDonagh and John MacBride, of James Connolly and Padraig Pearse? One hundred years later, Tim Pat Coogan offers a personal perspective on the Irish experience that followed the Rising. He charts a flawed history that is marked as much by complacency, corruption, and institutional abuse as it is by the building of a nation and the sacrifices of the Republic's founding fathers." -- Publisher's description 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 651 0 $a Ireland $x Influence. $y Easter Rising, 1916 $x Influence. 651 0 $a Ireland $x History $y 1922- 651 0 $a Ireland $x Politics and government $y 1922- 941 $a 3 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20230214011645.0 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20170801011125.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170304032433.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=984C9EFEE9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search