Sinéad McCoole
Auteur de No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years 1900-1923
A propos de l'auteur
Sinead McCoole is on the Board of Visitors of Kilmainham Gaol Museum.
Œuvres de Sinéad McCoole
No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years 1900-1923 (2003) 63 exemplaires
Hard lessons: the child prisoners of Kilmainham jail 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- McCoole, Sinéad
- Date de naissance
- 1968
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Ireland
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Études
- University College Dublin
- Professions
- historian
broadcaster
author - Courte biographie
- Sinéad McCoole is an Irish historian, broadcaster and author.
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Å’uvres
- 7
- Membres
- 131
- Popularité
- #154,467
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 13
Reading the biographies also gave me a new perspective on the Troubles - when founding members of Sinn Féin were being buried with full military honors (which they undeniably deserved) into the late nineties, it's easier to see how people could keep justifying that level of violence. I also want to give a shout-out to the author for being nonpartisan throughout the entire book. She betrays no partiality to either side, British or Irish, Free State or Republican, pointing out the heroism and the atrocities in both, wherever it touches her story. It makes for decidedly uncomfortable reading sometimes, which I have to applaud.… (plus d'informations)