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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Foster, R. F. (Robert Fitzroy), 1949-     Subjects     Revolutions -- Social aspects -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.     Social change -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.     Politics and culture -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.     Ireland -- History -- Easter Rising, 1916 -- Social aspects.     Ireland -- History -- Easter Rising, 1916 -- Biography.     Ireland -- History -- War of Independence, 1919-1921 -- Social aspects.     Ireland -- History -- Civil War, 1922-1923 -- Social aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Foster, R. F. (Robert Fitzroy), 1949-       by title:      Vivid faces : the re...       by call number:      941.50821 F756v     Search the Web     Foster, R. F. (Robert Fitzroy), 1949-     Revolutions -- Social aspects -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.     Social change -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.     Politics and culture -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.     Ireland -- History -- Easter Rising, 1916 -- Social aspects.     Ireland -- History -- Easter Rising, 1916 -- Biography.     Ireland -- History -- War of Independence, 1919-1921 -- Social aspects.     Ireland -- History -- Civil War, 1922-1923 -- Social aspects.       MARC Display

Vivid faces : the revolutionary generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 / R.F. Foster. by Foster, R. F. (Robert Fitzroy), 1949- W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. Call #: 941.50821 F756v Subjects Revolutions -- Social aspects -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.   Social change -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.   Politics and culture -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.   Ireland -- History -- Easter Rising, 1916 -- Social aspects.   Ireland -- History -- Easter Rising, 1916 -- Biography.   Ireland -- History -- War of Independence, 1919-1921 -- Social aspects.   Ireland -- History -- Civil War, 1922-1923 -- Social aspects. ISBN:  9780393082791 (hc.) 0393082792 (hc.) Edition:  First American edition. Description:  xxiii, 463 p., 16 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-392) and index. Contents:  The Ireland of yesterday -- Fathers and children -- Learning -- Playing -- Loving -- Writing -- Arming -- Fighting -- Reckoning -- Remembering -- Freedoms -- Biographical appendix. Summary:  "A history of Ireland's Easter Rising told through the lives of ordinary people who forged a revolutionary generation. On Easter Monday, 1916, Irish rebels poured into Dublin's streets to proclaim an independent republic. Ireland's long struggle for self-government had suddenly become a radical and bloody fight for independence from Great Britain. Irish nationalists mounted a week-long insurrection, occupying public buildings and creating mayhem before the British army regained control. The Easter Rising provided the spark for the Irish revolution, a turning point in the violent history of Irish independence. R.F. Foster explores the human dimension of this pivotal event. He focuses on the ordinary men and women, Yeats's 'vivid faces,' who rose 'from counter or desk among grey / Eighteenth-century houses' and took to the streets. They rejected the inherited ways of the Church, their bourgeois families, and British rule. They found inspiration in the ideals of socialism and feminism, in new approaches to love, art, and belief. Drawing on fresh sources, including personal letters and diaries, Foster summons his characters to life. We meet Rosamond Jacob, who escaped provincial Waterford for bustling Dublin. On a jaunt through the city she might visit a modern art gallery, buy cigarettes, or read a radical feminist newspaper. She could practice the Irish language, attend a lecture on Freud, or flirt with a man who would later be executed for his radical activity. These became the roots of a rich life of activism in Irish and women's causes. Vivid Faces shows how Rosamond and her peers were galvanized to action by a vertiginous sense of transformation: as one confided to his diary, 'I am changing and things around me change.' Politics had fused with the intimacies of love and belief, making the Rising an event not only of the streets but also of the hearts and minds of a generation"--From publisher's website. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 941.50821 F756v Core Collection - Adult Checked out Jul 14, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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