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Vivid Faces - The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 (Hardcover)
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Vivid Faces - The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 (Hardcover)
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On Easter Monday, 1916, Irish rebels poured into Dublin's streets
to proclaim an independent republic. Ireland's long struggle for
self-government had suddenly become a radical and bloody fight for
independence from Great Britain. Irish nationalists mounted a
week-long insurrection, occupying public buildings and creating
mayhem before the British army regained control. The Easter Rising
provided the spark for the Irish revolution, a turning point in the
violent history of Irish independence. In this highly original
history, acclaimed scholar R. F. Foster explores the human
dimension of this pivotal event. He focuses on the ordinary men and
women, Yeats's "vivid faces," who rose "from counter or desk among
grey / Eighteenth-century houses" and took to the streets. A
generation made, not born, they rejected the inherited ways of the
Church, their bourgeois families, and British rule. They found
inspiration in the ideals of socialism and feminism, in new
approaches to love, art, and belief. Drawing on fresh sources,
including personal letters and diaries, Foster summons his
characters to life. We meet Rosamond Jacob, who escaped provincial
Waterford for bustling Dublin. On a jaunt through the city she
might visit a modern art gallery, buy cigarettes, or read a radical
feminist newspaper. She could practice the Irish language, attend a
lecture on Freud, or flirt with a man who would later be executed
for his radical activity. These became the roots of a rich life of
activism in Irish and women's causes. Vivid Faces shows how
Rosamond and her peers were galvanized to action by a vertiginous
sense of transformation: as one confided to his diary, "I am
changing and things around me change." Politics had fused with the
intimacies of love and belief, making the Rising an event not only
of the streets but also of the hearts and minds of a generation.
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