Publisher's Synopsis
'The 1916 Irish Rebellion' is the companion book to a three-part documentary series to be broadcast worldwide in 2016. Narrated by Liam Neeson, the documentary, entitled '1916 The Irish Rebellion,' and its related 70-minute version are initiatives of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. This book includes a historical narrative; a lavish spread of contemporary images and photographs; and a rich selection of sidebar quotations from contemporary documents, prisoners' statements, and other eyewitness accounts to capture the experiences of nationalists and unionists, Irish rebels and British soldiers, and Irish Americans during the turbulent events of Easter Week, 1916.
