For a week in April 1916, 2,000 Irish Volunteers rose up in armed rebellion against the British Empire in a bid to establish an independent Irish state. Tracing the establishment of the various organizations involved, this account of the Easter Rising provides a day to day narrative by those who took part, along with personal accounts of the trial, the execution of the rebel leaders and the imprisonment of the surviving Volunteers. Atrocities and murders that took place on both sides are described in detail based on coroners’ reports.

Joseph McKenna is a retired local studies librarian, with over 30 years experience working in the Central Library in Birmingham, England. He formerly sat on the City Council`s Conservation Advisory Areas Committee.

Joseph McKenna
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages: 368
Bibliographic Info: 65 photos, 6 maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2017
pISBN: 978-1-4766-6823-9
eISBN: 978-1-4766-2916-2
Imprint: McFarland

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  v
List of Maps  viii
Preface  1
Introduction  3
1. “’Tis good to be in Ireland in these times”  9
2. “I think they mean to fight”  28
3. Prelude to the Rising  48
4. Easter Week  62
5. Monday, 24 April  69
6. Tuesday, 25 April  136
7. Wednesday, 26 April  161
8. Thursday, 27 April  195
9. Friday, 28 April  217
10. Saturday, 29 April  231
11. Sunday, 30 April  248
12. The Battle of Ashbourne  256
13. In the Country  271
14. “Unfortunate incidents … may have occurred”  281
15. Execution and Imprisonment  295
16. Repatriation  327
Appendix I: General Plan of the Rising  333
Appendix II: Executions and IRA Personnel Killed in Action  336
Chapter Notes  338
Bibliography  347
Index  351