Covers the events of the 1916 rising on a day-by-day basis, starting on Easter Sunday - the date originally set for the start - and continuing through to the surrender the following Saturday. This book locates the rising in the Irish historical memory, contrasting its high ideals with the reality of the new state to which it helped give birth.
Journalist Clodagh Finn meticulously pieces together the story of the brave Irish woman who risked her life and spent time in a Gestapo prison for saving the lives of hundreds of people - adults and children - bound for Nazi concentration camps.
This latest book by Tarquin Blake documents eighty abandoned Church of Ireland churches, preserving a record of fragile religious ruins. Blake's haunting images of crumbling ruins and history of the churches tell another fascinating story of troubled times.
In 2008 Tarquin Blake found his first abandoned 'Big House' and so began exploring the lost architecture of Ireland. Alongside his haunting photographs, Tarquin includes brief histories of these abandoned mansions and the people who lived there.
In this follow up to the critically-acclaimed Abandoned Mansions of Ireland, Tarquin Blake documents a further fifty lost houses. Beautiful, haunting images of crumbling ruins accompanied by the history of the houses and their occupants tell a fascinating story of troubled times and private hardship.
History remembers the Easter Rising as Irish rebel against English soldier, but the truth is more complicated. Thousands of British Army soldiers in the Rising were Irishmen. Forty-one Irishmen in the British Army died in action, 106 were wounded. These men became a forgotten part of their country's history.