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Insurrection
Liam O'Flaherty

“Vivid, passionate writing takes the reader through the opening hours of disbelief, wild excitement and later horror as the Rising is established in the GPO.”
- Electrical Mail

“The dark rapture that a man felt at sea on a hooker in a raging gale was paltry compared to this…”

Bartly Madden is caught up in the Easter Week Rising through a series of accidents…

For Madden, the insurrection offers an escape as well as an opportunity. He joins Kinsella, the ascetic commander of a small band of insurgents, for whom war is a duty, and Stapleton, poet and anarchist, at war with all forms of government. Only young Tommy Colgan is oppressed by the fear of violent action.
As bravery, fear, cowardice and terror struggle for supremacy, these men are defined not by what they live for but by what they are prepared to die for.