The life of Seán MacDiarmada

[Recensie] The uprising that broke out in Dublin and some other places in Ireland in 1916 was largely directed by two people; Tom Clarke and Seán MacDiarmada. In popular history, the focus is on Patrick Pearse as provisional president of the Republic of Ireland, and James Connolly the charismatic workers’ leader. In the background,

An introductory overview of the Irish revolutionary period

[Recensie] With the centenary of the Easter rising drawing near it is appropriate to give some attention not only to the events in Dublin in 1916 but to the whole revolutionary period in Ireland that began in the first years of the 1910’s and ended with the formal ending of hostilities between the pro- and anti-Treaty forces in 1923.