1916: the long revolution

An interpretation of the events of Easter Week 1916 as the central defining event of a long revolution in Irish history. Introduction by Garret Fitzgerald. This book seeks to interpret the events of Easter Week 1916 as the central defining event of a long revolution in Irish history. The origins of the long revolution lie in the second half of the nineteenth century, and its legacy is still being played out in the first years of the twenty-first century. Acknowledged experts on specific topics seek to explore the layered domestic and international, political, legal and moral aspects of this uniquely influential and controversial event. Contributors are: Rory O'Dwyer, Michael Wheatley, Brendan O'Shea and Gerry White, D.G. Boyce, Francis M. Carroll, Rosemary Cullen Owens, Jéríḿe aan de Wiel, Adrian Hardiman, Keith Jeffery, Mary McAleese, Owen McGee, Seamus Murphy and Brian P. Murphy.

Preface / Garret FitzGerald -- Introduction / Gabriel Doherty, Dermot Keogh -- 1916: a vew from 2006 / Mary McAleese -- Europe and the Irish crisis, 1900-17 / Jérôme aan de Wiel -- The Ulster crisis: prelude to 1916? / D.G. Boyce -- 'Irreconcilable enemies' or 'flesh and blood'? The Irish party and the Easter rebels, 1914-16 / Michael Wheatley -- The First World War and the Rising: mode, moment and memory / Keith Jeffery -- Who were the 'Fenian dead'? The IRB and the background to the 1916 Rising / Owen McGee -- America and the 1916 Rising / Francis M. Carroll -- The Easter Rising in the context of censorship and propaganda with special reference to Major Ivon Price / Brian P. Murphy -- Easter 1916 in Cork: order, counter-order and disorder / Gerry White and Brendan O'Shea -- Constance Markievicz's 'three great movements' and the 1916 Rising / Rosemary Cullen Owens -- 'Shot in cold blood': military law and Irish perceptions in the suppression of the 1916 rebellion / Adrian Hardiman -- The Catholic church, the Holy See and the 1916 Rising / Dermot Keogh -- Bureau of Military History: Testimony of Michael Curran / Michael Curran -- Easter ethics / Séamus Murphy -- The Golden Jubilee…