John MacBride :16Lives - 16Lives
John MacBride :16Lives - 16Lives
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Published:
12 October, 2015
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Description
Major John MacBride, who was Born in Westport, County Mayo in 1868, was a household name in Ireland when many of the leaders of the Easter Rising were still relatively unknown figures.
As part of the ‘Irish Brigade’, a band of nationalists fighting against the British in the Second Boer War, MacBride’s name featured in stories in the Freeman’s Journal and Arthur Griffith’s United Irishman. The Major went on to travel across the United States, lecturing audiences on the blow struck against the British Empire in South Africa. His marriage to Maud Gonne, described as ‘Ireland’s Joan of Arc’, led to further notoriety. Their subsequent bitter separation involved some of the most senior figures in Irish nationalism.
MacBride was dismissed by William Butler Yeats as a ‘drunken, vainglorious lout; Donal Fallon attempts to unravel the complexities of the man and his life and what led him to fight in Jacob’s factory in 1916.
John MacBride was executed in Kilmainham Gaol on 5 May 1916, two days before his forty-eighth birthday.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781847172709 |
| ISBN10 | 1847172709 |
| Number Of Pages | 320 |
| Item Weight | 328 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 196 x 23 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | O'Brien Press Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
well-written and will be enjoyed by the general reader and the serious student
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Author's Bio
DONAL FALLON is a lecturer and historian based in Dublin. Co-founder of the popular social history website ‘Come Here To Me’, his previous publications include The Pillar: The Life and After Life of the Nelson Pillar (New Island, 2014). He is currently completing a PhD on republican commemoration and memory in 1930s Ireland.