{"product_id":"9780745336329","title":"1916: Ireland's Revolutionary Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Easter Rising of 1916, in which just over a thousand Irish rebels seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed the independence of the Irish Republic before being brutally suppressed by the vastly larger and better-equipped British Army, is an event whose meaning remains contested to this day. For some it represents a blood sacrifice without the hope—or even the intention­—of success. For others, it was the first act in a tumultuous political drama played out in Dublin streets and London cabinet rooms that led to the eventual formation of an independent Irish state.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003e1916\u003c\/i\u003e, Kieran Allen argues that this pivotal moment in Irish history has been obscured by those who see it only as a prelude for a war of independence. Emphasizing an often ignored social and political radicalism at the heart of the rebellion, he shows that it gave birth to a revolutionary tradition that continues to haunt the Irish elite. Socialist aspirations mixed, and sometimes clashed, with the republican current, but both were crushed in a counterrevolution that accompanied the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921. The result today is a partitioned Ireland that acts as a neoliberal tax haven for multinational corporations—a state of affairs quite alien to both Connolly’s and Pearse’s vision.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Published to coincide with the Rising’s centennial, \u003ci\u003e1916: Ireland’s Revolutionary Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e re-establishes the political role of socialist republican figures, offers a highly accessible history of the Easter Rising, and explores the militancy and radicalism that continues to haunt the Irish elite one hundred years later. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020137021680,"sku":"9780745336329","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780745336329_p0.jpg?v=1769901106","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780745336329","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}