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THE YEAR OF LIBERTY: THE STORY OF THE GREAT IRISH REBELLION OF 1798

by Thomas Pakenham

Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st. 1969

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.

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.

ISBN: 0340106409
Stock no. 1830943

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Contents

  • Preface
  • Prologue - A Protestant Wind
  • PART I - CONSPIRACY
  • 1 BRITAIN'S DIFFICULTY, IRELAND'S OPPORTUNITY
  • 2 "ARE THEY ABOVE OR ARE THEY COME?"
  • 3 A GENERALS PROPHECY
  • 4 THE TRIANGLES
  • 5 PACIFYING WICKLOW
  • 6 "THE BOYS WILL ALL BE THERE"
  • PART II - REBELLION
  • 1 THE MAIL COACH SIGNAL
  • 2 CONTER-ATTACK
  • 3 THE FIRE SPREADS SOUTH
  • 4 ENGLISH IMBECILITY, IRISH FEROCITY
  • 5 ULSTER STIRS
  • PART III - REVOLUTION
  • 1 THE GREEN BOUGH OF LIBERTY
  • 2 "SHE'S STOPT, BOYS, SHE'S STOPT!"
  • 3 ULSTER WILL FIGHT
  • 4 A DRASTIC SOLUTION
  • 5 THE RELIEF OF WEXFOR
  • PART IV - OLIVE BRANCH
  • 1 "MURDER IS THEIR PASTIME"
  • 2 THE FRENCH ARE ON THE SEA
  • 3 THE REPUBLIC OF CONNAUGHT
  • 4 THE RACE FOR DUBLIN
  • 5 THE LAST DAY OF LIBERTY
  • 6 HOME COMING
  • Epilogue - Plus Ca Change
  • Select Bibliography
  • Notes
  • Index

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