THE YEAR OF LIBERTY: THE STORY OF THE GREAT IRISH REBELLION OF 1798
Written by Thomas Pakenham
Published by Hodder & Stoughton
in 1969
ISBN: 0340106409
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THE YEAR OF LIBERTY: THE STORY OF THE GREAT IRISH REBELLION OF 1798
Written by Thomas Pakenham.
Stock no. 1830943
1st.
1969.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A very thorough and readable telling of the 1798 United Irishmen movement and the uprising against British rule in Ireland. The author gives an almost day-to-day account of the heroic and tragic events that shook the British and the Protestant Ascendency in Ireland. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 416 pages including index. ISBN: 0340106409. Small mark to top of front board, top & tail of spine lightly shelf-rubbed, else boards clean. Text block is grubby & dusty with a few foxspots. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn with a small chip to top of spine, very lightly faded to spine.