Publisher's Synopsis
This book, the companion to 'The Trials of Civilians by Military Courts: Ireland 1921' is a comprehensive study of the trials during May 1916, following the Easter Rising. There were 160 trials conducted in a two-week period between the 2nd and 16th May 1916. During this period, of the 93 death sentences handed out, 15 were carried out, and nearly 2000 men and women deported to England. It was not until the turn of this century that the Public Records Office released the trial records related to the executed prisoners. This book offers an unsentimental reappraisal of the trials and the trial regime, and includes previously unpublished trial records of men such as Harry Boland, Desmond Fitzgerald, George Plunkett and William Partridge as well as many of the footsoldiers who were sentenced to death.
