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Informationen zum Autor Gabriel Doherty teaches in the Department of History! University College Cork. He received his BA in Modern History from Oxford University! having studied at Magdalene College between 1986 and 1989. Dr Dermot Keogh is Professor of History at University College Cork. He was a Fulbright Professor in San Jose! California in 1983 and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre! Washington DC! in 1988. Both have published widely on various aspects of twentieth century Irish history inclding Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State. Klappentext Introduction by Garret Fitzgerald. This book seeks to interpret the events of Easter Week 1916 as the central defining event of a 'long revolution' in Irish history. The origins of the long revolution lie in the second half of the nineteenth century, and its legacy is still being played out in the first years of the twenty-first century.Acknowledged experts on specific topics seek to explore the layered domestic and international, political, legal and moral aspects of this uniquely influential and controversial event.Contributors are: Rory O' Dwyer, Michael Wheatley, Brendan O'Shea and Gerry White, D.G. Boyce, Francis M. Carroll, Rosemary Cullen Owens, Jérí¿me aan de Wiel, Adrian Hardiman, Keith Jeffery, Mary McAleese, Owen McGee, Seamus Murphy and Brian P. Murphy.
