Dublin, 1916 by McHugh, Roger (Editor) - 1966

NY: Hawthorn Books, 1966. First American Edition; dj w/unclipped price, in mylar 399 clean, unmarked pages/index; A vivid and exciting anthology capturing the Easter Uprising in Dublin, and the events that led up to it. Compiled fro newspaper reports, diaries and letters. Also through the poets and writers, who realise that Ireland had been 'changed utterly' the impact and splendour of the Rising is bought to life. Writers and eyewittnesses whose impressions are gathered here include: Roger Casement, Countess de Markieviz, Ernie O'Malley, Sir Henry Lytton, Jame Connolly, Patrick Pearse, W.B. Yeats, Lady Grgory, Sean O' Faolain, Geoger Bernard Shaw, and many others. In 1914 the Carsonite Volunteers, with help of British sympathizers in high places, ran a big cargo of arms ashore at Larne. The British Government immediately prohibited the importation of arms into Ireland, top prevent the Nationalists should secure weapons too. Irish Volunteers organized an illegal shipment of arms to Howth from the Continent for a rising had been planned for that Easter Sunday. But on Easter Monday, shortly after noon, the Irish Republic was proclaimed in Dublin, and the insurgent Tricolour suddenly broke upon startled eyes flying from the flagstaff above the General Post Office in the very heart of the Irish capital. 299 pp Appendix to rear, 7 poems.ownr's stamp. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo; 2 Pounds.