Ireland's Revolutionary Era: First-hand Accounts From the Easter Rising to the Anglo-Irish Treaty

This book sets out to record the course of Ireland’s Revolutionary Era, using as its basis the recollections of many individuals who took active roles in the Easter Rising and the War of Independence.Though the Easter Rising of 1916 was a military failure its impact on the Irish population was profound.The military defeat by the British only served to galvanise the republican fraternity across Ireland and made it even more determined to ensure any future rebellion would be a success. In that intervening period both the political and militant strands of Irish republicanism worked hand in hand to create a new scenario which would allow for a further confrontation with the British.On the political front, the Sinn Fein party under the leadership of Eamon de Valera worked tirelessly to recruit new members and began to contest and win bye-elections.On the other hand, the militant section of republicanism saw the impressive emergence of armed units, even in the smallest and remotest communiti