Description"A WORK OF GREAT DRAMATIC POWER climaxing in the final hundred pages where he writes a full, searing narrative of the patriot leaders\' last days . de Rosa was born in London in 1932..
He also wrote the series Bless Me, Father (1979-1981).
About the author Peter de Rosa, a former Catholic priest, wrote Pope Patrick, Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916, and Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy.
With the dramatic flair of a novelist and the scrupulous accuracy of a professional historian, de Rosa brings to life the people, passions, politics, and repercussions of this historic event.
In Rebels, Peter de Rosa, author of the bestselling Vicars of Christ, tells the story of the 1916 Rising in all its terror and beauty.
The overthrow of seven centuries of British rule in Ireland began on Easter Monday, 1916.
The short-lived insurrection and the subsequent executions of sixteen rebel leaders galvanized the Irish people.
But the Rising of 1916 was not in vain.
Crack British troops killed and wounded hundreds of the rebels in the week of fighting, and British artillery shells left Dublin\'s city center in ruins.
It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it.
It\'s powerful stuff."--The Sunday Press (Ireland) On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. . .
Description"A WORK OF GREAT DRAMATIC POWER climaxing in the final hundred pages where he writes a full, searing narrative of the patriot leaders\' last days
