Table of Contents

Preface
1. Ireland Turned Upside Down
2. 1916: Armed Insurrection
3. The Irish Revolution
4. Republicanism and Counter-Revolution
5. A Most Conservative Country
6. The Rise and Fall of Radical Republicanism
7. From the Ashes a Phoenix Is Born
Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Kieran Allen is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University College Dublin. His books include 1916: Ireland's Revolutionary Tradition (2016) and The Politics of James Connolly (2016).

Reviews

'A fluent, indignant book'
*Neil Hegarty, Irish Times*

'A vivid and vital account of how class shaped the national movement which arose in the wake of the Rising - and thus shaped the Ireland we live in today'
*Eamonn McCann, Irish journalist, and author of 'War and an Irish Town' (Pluto, 1993)*

'An essential and unparalleled joy to read'
*Socialist Review*