Maurice Walsh

Bitter Freedom

Ireland In A Revolutionary World 1918-1923

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Irish Revolution - the war between the British authorities and the newly-formed IRA - was the first successful revolt anywhere against the British Empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 17065
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9780571243013
• ISBN-10: 0571243010
• Artikelnr.: 43916074

Autorenporträt

Maurice Walsh is the author of the groundbreaking The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution which was described by Colm Toibin as 'an invaluable book'. An award-winning documentary maker, he has reported from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the United States and Europe. His essays, reviews and reportage have appeared in Granta, the London Review of Books, the Dublin Review, the New Statesman, and other newspapers in the UK, Ireland and the US. He was Knight Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan in 2001, and Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford in 2010/11.

Rezensionen

Maurice Walsh is a gifted writer with a novelist's eye for the illuminating detail of everyday lives in extremis ... The great strength of Walsh's book is its breadth of vision. His book challenges parochial tendencies in the revolutionary story. Feargal Keane Prospect