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A review by bernfarr
1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion by Morgan Llywelyn
5.0
It's been several years since I read this historical fiction book set in Dublin during 1916. This was the year of the Easter Rising in Dublin, when a small group of armed Irish men and women took on the might of the English army.
In the end it was a dismal failure as an armed revolution, but it lit a spark that would result in England finally giving the people of Ireland control of their own country.
Llywelyn centers the book on Padraic Pearse, the schoolteacher who became the de facto leader of the uprising. It's an exciting tale of emotion, upheaval, betrayal and battle. The historical aspects seem accurate to my rusty memory of 1916. So you get an adventure novel and an education in a small but important part of Irish history.
In the end it was a dismal failure as an armed revolution, but it lit a spark that would result in England finally giving the people of Ireland control of their own country.
Llywelyn centers the book on Padraic Pearse, the schoolteacher who became the de facto leader of the uprising. It's an exciting tale of emotion, upheaval, betrayal and battle. The historical aspects seem accurate to my rusty memory of 1916. So you get an adventure novel and an education in a small but important part of Irish history.