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27%OFFW. J. Brennan-Whitmore - Dublin Burning: The Easter Rising from Behind the Barricades - 9780717159307 - 9780717159307
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Dublin Burning: The Easter Rising from Behind the Barricades

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Description for Dublin Burning: The Easter Rising from Behind the Barricades Hardcover. Dublin Burning is a vivid, clear-eyed account of the 1916 Rising and is the most complete account we have from a senior participant. No other senior Volunteer figure has left a similar memoir of Easter Week. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BGHA; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 416.

Dublin Burning is a vivid, clear-eyed account of the 1916 Rising and is the most complete account we have from a senior participant. No other senior Volunteer figure has left a similar memoir of Easter Week.

Commandant W.J. Brennan-Whitmore was officer commanding the Volunteer position at the head of North Earl Street, an outworking of the GPO garrison. Its purpose was to delay and frustrate any attempt by the British to deploy reinforcements coming from Amiens Street railway station (now Connolly).

Commandant Brennan-Whitmore and his men held this position for over seventy-two hours until forced out ... Read more

Brennan-Whitmore’s book is a unique document, one of the most valuable accounts of the Rising available to us.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Gill & Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9780717159307
SKU
9780717159307
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About W. J. Brennan-Whitmore
Commandant W.J. Brennan-Whitmore, a native of Co. Wexford, was a journalist by profession and a senior member of the Irish Volunteers. In addition to Dublin Burning, he also wrote With the Irish in Frongoch, an account of his time as an internee. He was the last surviving Commandant of the Easter Rising when he died in December 1977.

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