1916 portraits and lives / edited by Lawrence William White and James Quinn ; introduction and afterword by Patrick Maume ; illustrated by David Rooney.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 13, 2015).

English.

BIOGRAPHIES: -- Augustine Birrell -- Winifred Carney -- Roger Casement -- Eamonn Ceannt -- Thomas J. Clarke -- Con Colbert -- John Bowen-Colthurst -- James Connolly -- Sean Connolly -- Edward Daly -- Helen Gifford Donnelly -- Ivor Guest -- Sean Heuston -- Bulmer Hobson -- Walter Edgeworth-Johnstone -- Thomas Kent -- Kathleen Lynn -- John McBride -- Sean Mas Diarmada -- Thomas MacDonagh -- Eoin MacNeill -- Peadar macken -- Michael Mallin -- Constance Markievicz -- John Maxwell -- Helena Molony -- Matthew Nathan -- Richard O'Carroll -- Elizabeth O'Farrell -- Michael O'Hanrahan -- Michael J. O'Rahilly -- Patrich Pearse -- Willima Pearse -- Mary Perolz -- Joseph Mary Plunkett -- John Redmond -- Desmond Ryan -- Francis Shaw -- Francis Sheehy-Skeffington -- Margaret Skinnider.

"This book is a selection of 40 [that is, 42] 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."--Publisher's website.

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