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This classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798 remained for many years the only full-scale history of that tragic event ( some new histories were published for the bicentenary in 1998)
In May 1798 a hundred thousand peasants rose against the British government in Ireland. By the time the revolt had been put down four months later, thirty thousand dead were literally rotting in heaps in a smoking and desolate countryside. Yet it was not a schoolroom story of the heroic oppressed rising against the brutal oppressor, but the result of a complex, tragic, often absurd and sometimes heroic interplay between different groups of people. A tough and arrogant oligarchy of country gentlemen, mainly Protestant and mainly British in origin, lived off a Catholic peasantry. Meanwhile, idealistic merchants and hot-headed young lawyers dreamed and plotted for an Irish Republic on the French model. From a mass of sources including confidential government reports, contemporary newspapers, poems, broadsheets and letters, the author pieces together a story at once complex, tragic, absurd and heroic
Hardcover, 1st edition 1969 ( the year of publication) Light edgewear to covers, but internally very good, signed neatly by the author, undedicated.
Purple publishers tint to upper egde of page block, light creasing to dj edges. Now in a clear plastic removable Herma protector.
