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1916: Ireland''s Revolutionary Tradition

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By (author): Kieran Allen

A few minutes after noon on the 24th April, 1916, Patrick Pearse stepped outside the newly occupied GPO on Sackville Street with a copy of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. Reading aloud, he declared a strike for Irish freedom against the worlds greatest imperial power.

The Easter Rising, as the six days of intense, bloody fighting that followed came to be known, set the course for the next 100 years of Irish history; the Heroes of 16 becoming a national cultural and political touchstone down the generations. But today, canonised and mummified, the radical visions of Pearse and the socialist James Connolly are an awkward encumbrance on an Irish state that has its roots in the counter-revolution of the civil war, and which has emerged as a haven of economic neoliberalism.

In this fascinating alternative history of modern Ireland, Kieran Allen follows the thread of 1916s revolutionary tradition - an uneasy marriage of Socialism and Republicanism - as it has unravelled across the century.

From the strikes, boycotts, occupations and land redistribution that accompanied the war of independence; to the carnival of reaction that followed; all the way up to the current movement against water charges and austerity, Allen reveals the complexities, ruptures and continuities of a revolutionary tradition that continues to haunt the establishment today. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 351g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Jan 2016
  • Publisher: Pluto Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780745336374

About Kieran Allen

Kieran Allen is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University College Dublin. His books include 1916: Ireland's Revolutionary Tradition (2016) and The Politics of James Connolly (2016).

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