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22%OFFR.F. Foster - Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 - 9780241954249 - 9780241954249
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Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923

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Description for Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 paperback. Surveys the lives and beliefs of the people who made the Irish Revolution: linked together by youth, radicalism, subversive activities, enthusiasm and love. This title deals with argumentative, exciting, subversive and original lives of people who made a revolution, as well as the disillusionment in which it ended. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 368.

OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S MORRIS D. FORKOSCH PRIZE 2016

'The most complete and plausible exploration of the roots of the 1916 Rebellion... essential reading' Colm Tóibín

Vivid Faces surveys the lives and beliefs of the people who made the Irish Revolution: linked together by youth, radicalism, subversive activities, enthusiasm and love. Determined to reconstruct the world and defining themselves against their parents, they were in several senses a revolutionary generation.

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
367g
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241954249
SKU
9780241954249
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-5

About R.F. Foster
R. F. Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. His books include Modern Ireland, 1600-1972, Paddy and Mr Punch, The Irish Story, W. B. Yeats (two volumes) and Luck and the Irish.

Reviews for Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923
Terrific . . . It is a measure of his literary skill, as well as his expertise as a historian, that he is able to counterpoint so many life stories without sinking into confusion . . . Foster's prose is urbanely precise and he can pin down character as memorably as Yeats . . . Foster has the alertness of ... Read more

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