Dimensions
126 x 196 x 32mm
In May 1798, a hundred thousand peasants rose against the British Government in Ireland. By the time the revolt had been put down four months later, thirty thousand dead were literally rotting in heaps in a smoking and desolate countryside. Yet, as Thomas Pakenham's classic account of the rebellion shows, it was not a schoolroom story of the heroic oppressed rising against the brutal oppressor, but the result of a complex, tragic, often absurd and sometimes heroic interplay between different groups of people.
