Eamonn Ceannt
16Lives
Format:Paperback
Publisher:O'Brien Press Ltd
Published:27th Oct '14
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The son of a Head Constable in the Royal Irish Constabulary, by the age of twenty-five, Éamonn Ceannt was married with a young son. He played the uilleann pipes and was passionate about the Irish language. His commitment to a politically independent, Gaelic-speaking Ireland led him from the classrooms of the Gaelic League to the National Council of Sinn Féin and the senior ranks of the Irish Volunteers. He was a member of the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, which planned and carried out the Rising of Easter 1916, outright rebellion against the world’s biggest imperial power.
During Easter week 1916, he was Commandant of the 4th Battalion of the Irish Volunteers and a signatory to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. His severely depleted battalion held the strategic South Dublin Union until ordered to surrender. He was executed by firing squad on 8 May 1916.
'an epic new series of books' - RTE Guide on 16Lives
excellent
-- Connaught Tribune and Galway City TribuneThis series of sympathetic biographies attempts to show the day-to-day lives of the rebel leaders and the Ireland in which they lived … These two biographies are valuable additions to the historiography of the Rising and revolution, especially in highlight the diverging ambitions, desires and visions of the men who organised it’
-- Dublin Review of Booksextremely thorough, with an almost what-Éamonn-did-next feel about the writing. Perhaps because we knew so little about him, however, it leaves the reader with a feeling of sympathy for someone who was first and foremost a husband and father, a worker and more-than-competent writer, rather than a militant revolutionary
-- tintean.orgextremely thorough
-- Irish Echofascinating
-- History IreISBN: 9781847172716
Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 29mm
Weight: 413g
416 pages