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Best book on 1916 rising?

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  • 25-12-2014 8:38pm
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    MakeEmLaugh
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    What are people's thoughts on the best book on the 1916 Rising?

    I know Tim Pat Coogan's 1916: The Easter Rising is generally considered to be quite undistinguished and biased (or at least by the likes of Ruth Dudley Edwards, Liam Kennedy and Kevin Myers).

    Any thoughts on a definitive book on this subject?


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    Historybluff
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    Here are some good books on the Easter Rising:

    Charles Townshend, Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion (Penguin, 2005) is the best book on the Rising, I think. It puts it in its political context, is good on the actual fighting and the aftermath.

    Fearghal McGarry, The Rising: Ireland, 1916 (Oxford University Press, 2010) uses the Witness Statements from the Bureau of Military History to write about the Rising from the rebels' point of view.

    Michael Foy and Brian Barton, The Easter Rising (Sutton Publishing, 1999) is a detailed military history of the rebellion.


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