The Year of Liberty : History of the Great Irish Rebellion of

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The Year of Liberty : History of the Great Irish Rebellion of 1798

This classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798 remains the only full-scale history of that tragic event. As relevant today as it was when first published in 1969, THE YEAR OF LIBERTY is now reissued with the addition of a chronology and a glossary of terms. 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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Time Warner Books Uk
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780349112527
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780349112527
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Time Warner Books Uk
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780349112527
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780349112527
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Year of Liberty : History of the Great Irish Rebellion of 1798

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