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The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence, 1918-1923

This is a gripping narrative of the most critical years in modern Ireland`s history – from Charles Townshend, author of Easter 1916. The protracted, terrible fight for independence pitted the Irish against the British and the Irish against other Irish. It was both a physical battle of shocking violence against a regime increasingly seen as alien and unacceptable and an intellectual battle for a new sort of country. The damage done, the betrayals and grim compromises put the new nation into a state of trauma for at least a generation, but at a nearly unacceptable cost the struggle ended: a new republic was born. Charles Townshend`s Easter 1916 opened up the astonishing events around the Rising for a new generation and in The Republic he deals, with the same unflinchingly wish to get to the truth behind the legend, with the most critical years in Ireland`s history. There has been a great temptation to view these years through the prisms of martyrology and good-and-evil. The picture painted by Townshend is far more nuanced and sceptical – but also never loses sight of the ordinary forms of heroism performed by Irish men and women trapped in extraordinary times.`The author has devoted his life to the study of Irish history and this huge work is the pinnacle of his labours` John Banville on Easter 1916.

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