1916 Portraits and Lives

David Rooney, Lawrence William White, James Quinn

• Publisher: Royal Irish Academy
• Year: 2015
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781908996794
• Topic: History
• Index: History

This book is a selection of 40 articles from the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Irish Biography, dealing with 42 men and women whose careers, in one way or another, were deeply involved with the Easter rising of 1916.The biographies selected compose an inclusively broad picture of the rising, representing the spectrum of personalities and perspectives that were involved in the event. They include not only the insurgents (and some others) killed during the rising but also some of the women who were involved as soldiers or in supporting capacities; three nationalist leaders who opposed the rising; some of the senior figures in the British administration in Ireland in 1916; members of the British army that suppressed the rising; and two historians who made considerable contributions to the scholarly debate on 1916. This selection aims to give a balanced view of the rising.In addition to the biographies, there is an extended introduction by Patrick Maume, Queen's University Belfast, and each biography is illustrated with an original drawing by artist David Rooney.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Editors’ note
• Artist’s note
• Introduction
• Chronology
• Biographies
• Augustine Birrell by Eunan O’Halpin
• Winifred Carney by James Quinn
• Roger Casement by Michael Laffan
• Éamonn Ceannt by James Quinn
• Thomas J. Clarke by James Quinn
• Con Colbert by Lawrence William White
• John Bowen-Colthurst by Patrick Maume
• James Connolly by Fergus A. D’Arcy
• Sean Connolly by Lawrence William White
• Edward Daly by Desmond McCabe
• Helen Gifford Donnelly by Lawrence William White and Patrick Long
• Ivor Guest by Bridget Hourican
• SeÁn Heuston by David Murphy
• Bulmer Hobson by Patrick Maume
• Walter Edgeworth-Johnstone by David Murphy and James Quinn
• Thomas Kent by Desmond McCabe and Lawrence William White
• Kathleen Lynn by Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh
• John Macbride by Donal P. McCracken
• SeÁn Mac Diarmada by Lawrence William White
• Thomas Macdonagh by Lawrence William White
• Eoin Macneill by Patrick Maume and Thomas Charles-Edwards
• Peadar Macken by Marie Coleman
• Michael Mallin by Marie Coleman and James Quinn
• Constance Markievicz by Senia Paseta
• John Maxwell by Keith Jeffery
• Helena Molony by Frances Clarke and Lawrence William White
• Matthew Nathan by Michael D. Millerick.
• Richard O’carroll by Lawrence William White
• Elizabeth O’farrell by Frances Clarke and James Quinn.
• Michael O’hanrahan by Carmel Doyle
• Michael J. O’RAHILLY by Patrick Maume
• Patrick Pearse by J. J. Lee
• William Pearse by William Murphy
• Mary Perolz by Lawrence William White
• Joseph Mary Plunkett by Lawrence William White
• John Redmond by Michael Laffan
• Desmond Ryan by Lawrence William White.
• Francis Shaw by Patrick Maume
• Francis Sheehy-Skeffington by Patrick Maume
• Margaret Skinnider by Lawrence William White
• Afterword
• List of abbreviations
• Bibliography