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Here is a minute-by-minute account of the occasionally tragicomic events that brought on the 20th Century's first successful revolution. On Easter Monday, 1916, a half-trained army led by poets and intellectuals launched an invasion of Dublin's General Post Office, the most strategically useless building in the city.
Agony at Easter is not just another book about this foolish, yet somehow magnificent, rebellion. Though it adheres rigidly to the facts as gathered from long interviews and thorough research, it is told as a story from the viewpoint of those in and around the Post Office during its week of siege. The author weaves it all into a spellbinding narrative that brings out an extraordinary truth - the rebel leaders believed that through defeat and death they could arouse the Irish people to a triumphant fight for independence - and amazingly, they turned out to have been right.
Pelican PB, published in this edition 1971.
