To Speak of Easter Week:

Bol Partner

'To Speak of Easter Week' offers a broad and human perspective on the Easter Rising and its aftermath, using oral history recordings from the families of those involved and offering something new and unique to the wealth of material about 1916 already on the market. 'To Speak of Easter Week' draws on oral history recordings relating to the 1916 Rising and its aftermath, recorded by Maurice O’Keeffe for the Irish Life and Lore Series. Based on the testimonies of the sons and daughters of the rebels, their granddaughters, grandsons and other close relatives, the book examines the very human legacy of Easter Week and looks at the different ways in which the family members have internalised and attempted to make sense of the actions of their antecedents. James Connolly’s great-grandson and Éamonn Ceannt’s grand-niece, Kathleen Clarke’s niece and Con Colbert’s nephew, among many others, trace their family history from 1916 through the generations down to the present, and examine the multi-layered meaning of their shared heritage. They tell their stories in their own unique voices, speaking of the pride and the glory, the grief and the agony, the loss and the very real burden of history.

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Pagina's: 288, Hardcover, The Mercier Press