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Published in: Society 6/2015

20-10-2015 | Book Review

Roy Foster, Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923

New York: W.W. Norton, 2015. 464 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978-0393082791

Author: John Rossi

Published in: Society | Issue 6/2015

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The history of Ireland in the first quarter of the twentieth century, including the 1916 Easter Rising and the terrible Civil War of 1922–23, has been experiencing a major revision at the hands of scholars. Many of the standard histories by people such as George Dangerfield, Leon O’Broin, F.X. Martin and others are considered dated and insufficiently subtle in their interpretation of events. …
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Title
Roy Foster, Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923
New York: W.W. Norton, 2015. 464 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978-0393082791
Author
John Rossi
Publication date
20-10-2015
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Society / Issue 6/2015
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-015-9958-3

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