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Macdonald 1969
8vo, black boards with gold titling tyo spine. Minor wear, chips + wrinkling to d/w edges o/w VG++/VG 420 gms
(Order reference 15475)

"On Easter Sunday 1916, 1000 Irishmen began a hopeless rising against their British Rulers. They were crushed swiftly, brutally, and efficiently. But this futile gesture was the point of no return in a long struggle against the might of the British Empire and led to a period of guerilla war which won Ireland her freedom – freedom which was immediately followed by a long and bloody Civil War. Constantine Fitzgibbon, one of Ireland's leading authors, gives a lively and personal view of these events, the climax of more than three centuries of struggle."