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We meet Rosamond Jacob, who escaped provincial Waterford for bustling Dublin. They found inspiration in the ideals of socialism and feminism, in new approaches to love, art, and belief.ĭrawing on fresh sources, including personal letters and diaries, Foster summons his characters to life. A generation made, not born, they rejected the inherited ways of the Church, their bourgeois families, and British rule. He focuses on the ordinary men and women, Yeats's "vivid faces," who rose "from counter or desk among grey / Eighteenth-century houses" and took to the streets. Foster explores the human dimension of this pivotal event. In this highly original history, acclaimed scholar R. The Easter Rising provided the spark for the Irish revolution, a turning point in the violent history of Irish independence. Irish nationalists mounted a week-long insurrection, occupying public buildings and creating mayhem before the British army regained control. Ireland's long struggle for self-government had suddenly become a radical and bloody fight for independence from Great Britain. On Easter Monday, 1916, Irish rebels poured into Dublin's streets to proclaim an independent republic.
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