The Easter Rising: A Guide to Dublin in 1916

Fantastic book, gets straight to the point, no waffle, no uncessary wooley dialogue.Buy it or miss out.
Even better, if you are in Dublin do the tour, then by the book. One of the authors Lorcan Collins conducts a 1916 Rebellion walking tour, which starts outside the International Bar on Wicklow Street in Dublin. Its fantastic and in my opinion is the best 12 euros you can spend while in Dublin!

So go on, go on...do the tour and buy the book!

The Easter Rising: A Guide to Dublin in 1916. (5/5 people found this helpful)

Can't help becoming enthused with the subject once you start to read this book. Lots of good photographs and human-interest details throughout. The story of the Rising is told as a journey through central Dublin, with chapters linked to city locations and landmarks. The book lacks an index but, once read, information which has been associated with a particular marker can then be accessed again by turning to that marker's chapter.

Excellent work! (9/9 people found this helpful)

The Easter Rising : A Guide to Dublin in 1916 by Conor Kostick and Lorcan Collins is simply a great book. Well-researched, well-written, and with fantastic photographs, anyone interested in Irish history should own this book. Make it a point, too, to take their Easter Rising walking tour, which meets at the International Bar. It is a highlight of any trip to Dublin. Well done, lads!

One of the better introductions to this chapter of Ireland. (5/6 people found this helpful)

Having spent a considerable amount of time in Dublin it is easy to become attached to that wonderful city. "The Easter Rising" is more than a history book and more than a guide book. It is a little bit of Dublin you can keep. It tells of its energies, its aspirations and failures at a critical point in its history and the history of Ireland.

a book that entertains as it enlightens (7/7 people found this helpful)

At last we have a concise account of the Easter Rising. Collins and Kostick have contributed a really worthwhile book to the tomes of Irish history. This book has one very important quality; it is highly readable. And although highly informative it avoids any leanings towards the didactic format most books of this kind take. The books birth, from a historical tour of Dublin probably aided the books readability. The result is that the topic has a human feel which most history books seem to omit in recording the events. Amongst this praise for the style and accessibility of the book don't think that causes, mechanics and consequences of the events have been in any way neglected. One would indeed struggle to find a book of similar size that contained so much history, both political and social. The best way to sum this book up is to say that on completion I felt regret; regret firstly that it wasn't at hand when as a confused student I tried to unravel the history of Ireland, and secondly that there are not more historians writing in this manner. Keep it up lads.

Conor Kostick, Lorcan Collins

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Read the book? Now do the tour (4/4 people found this helpful)