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saranies's review
3.0
I didn't know much about the Irish Rising in 1916, other than seeing the bullet holes that still stand on the big post office building on O'Connell Street in Dublin. It was an interesting history and drew more parallels to the poor doomed young men in Les Miserable than I had previously known. Rebels is certainly biased in favor of the Sinn Feiners, but doesn't shy away from critiques of their naive and blind faith that the rest of Ireland was with them. The lead-up to the Easter Rebellion was a little boring, but the author's style made the battle and the aftermath of the battle especially sad and heartbreaking. Spoiler alert: it's a lot of death, including Dubliners who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
de Rosa described this book as "faction," and he certainly takes some liberties with his prose to the point of questioning his reliability as historian. Did the Countess really talk that way? He says that one of the American Irish figures had the tenacity of a Philadelphia lawyer, a comparison that I didn't know was a thing but made me laugh out loud. It was an overall enjoyable read, and a nice break from the fiction that I always read.
de Rosa described this book as "faction," and he certainly takes some liberties with his prose to the point of questioning his reliability as historian. Did the Countess really talk that way? He says that one of the American Irish figures had the tenacity of a Philadelphia lawyer, a comparison that I didn't know was a thing but made me laugh out loud. It was an overall enjoyable read, and a nice break from the fiction that I always read.
radbear76's review
5.0
Great book. It epitomizes what Princess Leia said to General Tarkin "The more you squeeze the more systems will slip through your fingers. " To put it more bluntly the English suppressed the 1916 uprising but lost the war.
didactylos's review
5.0
I have read a few books on this subject, and none has had me so involved and so appalled at what went on. This is told in great detail and above all shows how as soon as forces are unleashed the worst activities of man will occur. I was not aware of how disruptive, how destructive and how deadly this action was.