Product Description
The original first edition printing in hardcover, O'Brien Press 1990, of then RTE journalist Liam Cahill's account of the short lived Limerick Soviet 1919, and how the events in the city in that year interacted with the wider nascent War of Independence and the role the events played in the wider history of Irish trade unionism and labour history.
Illustrated, with map, reproductions of period newspapers and full index.
A revised edition was published in 2019 in paperback for the 100th anniversary.
Uncommon hardcover first - NOT ex library, clean and unmarked.