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Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916 Paperback - 1992

by Peter de Rosa

This acclaimed dramatic account of how the Irish Republic was born has already become an international bestseller. Capturing all the suspense, pathos, and black comedy of the tiny, failed 1916 rebellion that finally led to independence, Rebels is as riveting as Leon Uris's Trinity, only all true.


From the publisher

"A WORK OF GREAT DRAMATIC POWER climaxing in the final hundred pages where he writes a full, searing narrative of the patriot leaders' last days . . . It's powerful stuff."
--The Sunday Press (Ireland) On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it. Crack British troops killed and wounded hundreds of the rebels in the week of fighting, and British artillery shells left Dublin's city center in ruins. But the Rising of 1916 was not in vain. The short-lived insurrection and the subsequent executions of sixteen rebel leaders galvanized the Irish people. The overthrow of seven centuries of British rule in Ireland began on Easter Monday, 1916. In Rebels, Peter de Rosa, author of the bestselling Vicars of Christ, tells the story of the 1916 Rising in all its terror and beauty. With the dramatic flair of a novelist and the scrupulous accuracy of a professional historian, de Rosa brings to life the people, passions, politics, and repercussions of this historic event.

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"A WORK OF GREAT DRAMATIC POWER climaxing in the final hundred pages where he writes a full, searing narrative of the patriot leaders' last days . . . It's powerful stuff."
--The Sunday Press (Ireland) On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it. Crack British troops killed and wounded hundreds of the rebels in the week of fighting, and British artillery shells left Dublin's city center in ruins.
But the Rising of 1916 was not in vain. The short-lived insurrection and the subsequent executions of sixteen rebel leaders galvanized the Irish people. The overthrow of seven centuries of British rule in Ireland began on Easter Monday, 1916. In Rebels, Peter de Rosa, author of the bestselling Vicars of Christ, tells the story of the 1916 Rising in all its terror and beauty. With the dramatic flair of a novelist and the scrupulous accuracy of a professional historian, de Rosa brings to life the people, passions, politics, and repercussions of this historic event.

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  • Title Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916
  • Author Peter de Rosa
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Fourth Printing
  • Pages 576
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ballantine Books, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date February 18, 1992
  • ISBN 9780449906828 / 0449906825
  • Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.99 x 5.2 x 1.05 in (20.29 x 13.21 x 2.67 cm)
  • Themes
    • Holiday: St. Patrick's Day
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Ireland - History - Easter Rising, 1916 -
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Peter de Rosa, a former Catholic priest, wrote Pope Patrick, Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916, and Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy. He also wrote the series Bless Me, Father (1979-1981). de Rosa was born in London in 1932.
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