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The 13th Apostle: A Novel of Michael Collins and the Irish Uprising
Dermot McEvoy
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Description for The 13th Apostle: A Novel of Michael Collins and the Irish Uprising
Paperback. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, the first great revolution of the twentieth century began as working-class men and women occupied buildings throughout Dublin, Ireland, including the General Post Office on O'Connell Street. Among the commoners in the GPO was a young staff captain of the Irish Volunteers named Michael Collins. He was joined a day later by a fourteen-year-old messenger boy, Eoin Kavanagh. Four days later they would all surrender, but they had struck the match that would burn Great Britain out of Ireland for the first time in seven hundred years. The 13th Apostle is ... Read more
On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, the first great revolution of the twentieth century began as working-class men and women occupied buildings throughout Dublin, Ireland, including the General Post Office on O'Connell Street. Among the commoners in the GPO was a young staff captain of the Irish Volunteers named Michael Collins. He was joined a day later by a fourteen-year-old messenger boy, Eoin Kavanagh. Four days later they would all surrender, but they had struck the match that would burn Great Britain out of Ireland for the first time in seven hundred years. The 13th Apostle is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781510712072
SKU
V9781510712072
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Ref
99-15
About Dermot McEvoy
Dermot McEvoy was born in Dublin in 1950 and immigrated with his family to New York City four years later. He is a graduate of Hunter College and the author of of three novels, THE 13TH APOSTLE, OUR LADY OF GREENWICH VILLAGE, and TERRIBLE ANGEL. He is also the author of IRISH MISCELLANY and THE LITTLE GREEN BOOK OF IRISH ... Read more
Reviews for The 13th Apostle: A Novel of Michael Collins and the Irish Uprising
McEvoy gives us the story of the Irish War for Independence in all its vivid, intimate, squalid, intricate, heroic, and tragic immediacy. . . . This is historical fiction of a rare and wonderful sort. Peter Quinn, author of Banished Children of Eve McEvoy gives us the story of the Irish War for Independence in all its ... Read more