Dublin Burning: The Easter Rising From Behind the Barricades
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Dublin Burning: The Easter Rising From Behind the Barricades

The Only Eye-Witness Account of the Easter Rising written by a senior participant

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eBook - ePub

Dublin Burning: The Easter Rising From Behind the Barricades

The Only Eye-Witness Account of the Easter Rising written by a senior participant

About this book

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 by British artillery. He and his troops attempted to retreat northwards through the slums, hoping to reach the safety of the suburbs. But he and his men were not Dubliners and were unfamiliar with the city. They were captured in a tenement where they had taken refuge and were interned in Frongoch in Wales until 1917. Brennan-Whitmore's book is a unique document, one of the most valuable accounts of the Rising available to us.

Information

Publisher
Gill Books
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780717159307
eBook ISBN
9780717159284
Topic
History
Subtopic
Irish History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Dedication
  4. Foreword by Patrick M. Geoghegan
  5. Introduction by Pauric Travers
  6. Ante-Scriptum
  7. Chapter 1: Eve of the Rising
  8. Chapter 2: Plans for the Rising
  9. Chapter 3: Easter
  10. Chapter 4: The Insurrection Begins
  11. Chapter 5: I Become a Post Commander
  12. Chapter 6: North Earl Street Command Post
  13. Chapter 7: The Fight Begins
  14. Chapter 8: Problems and their Solutions
  15. Chapter 9: Dublin Burning
  16. Chapter 10: The Attempted Breakthrough
  17. Chapter 11: ‘Hands Up!’
  18. Chapter 12: The Aussie Sergeant
  19. Chapter 13: In Richmond Barracks
  20. Appendix: Documents of the Rising
  21. Notes
  22. Images
  23. Copyright
  24. About the Author
  25. About Gill & Macmillan

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