Moral Lepers
John Banville: Easter 1916, 16 July 2015
Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923
by R.F. Foster.
Allen Lane, 433 pp., £10.99, May 2015,978 0 241 95424 9 Show More
by R.F. Foster.
Allen Lane, 433 pp., £10.99, May 2015,
“... that broke out in 1919, as later nationalist piety would insist. It is startling to read, in Charles Townshend’s fine study, The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) leader, John O’Leary who, in Yeats’s poem, shared his grave with the corpse of ‘romantic Ireland’, observing that the Brotherhood’s ... ”