Fearghal McGarry
Auteur de The Rising: Ireland: Easter 1916
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Fearghal McGarry
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- McGarry, Fearghal
- Date de naissance
- 1971-11-16
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Ireland
- Études
- University College Dublin
Trinity College Dublin
National University of Ireland, Maynooth - Professions
- lecturer
editor - Organisations
- Queen's University, Belfast
Irish Historical Studies - Courte biographie
- Fearghal McGarry is an Irish born Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland. He is a joint editor of Irish Historical Studies.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Membres
- 213
- Popularité
- #104,444
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 30
McGarry's account relies heavily on the memoirs and correspondence of the men and women who were involved in the events, as well as press reports and official records- to convey a sense of the happenings as they were seen at the time. He shows clearly that the rebels in Dublin did not have the sympathy of most Dubliners during the Rising. The leaders of the revolt. Patrick Pearse, Tom Clarke, James Connolly and others, were idealists who presumed to speak for the people of Ireland in the name of the "Republic of Ireland". They expected to be defeated by the British Empire and to be executed- but believed that the example of their glorious defeat and the "blood sacrifice" of their lives would move their countrymen to take up the cause of a free Ireland.
McGarry agrees with other historians that the British authorities, in swiftly executing fourteen rebel leaders after secret trials, imposing martial law over all of Ireland, and arresting thousands of people who weren't involved in the Rising, managed to do what the rebels in the Rising itself at first failed to do- turn the majority of the Irish people into militant rebel sympathizers. Just how this came to be, McGarry tells with a study that combines reasoned analysis and narrative told with engaging and moving detail.… (plus d'informations)