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Title: The Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism by Robert Kee ISBN: 0-14-029165-2 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the Best Books on Irish Political History-Ever
Comment: This is a famous and well reputed book. It has been in print now for almost 30 years-deservedly so I might add. I suspect it will still be in print another 30 years from now.
Robert Kee was a journalist and a famous World War 2 P.O.W. escapee. He writes lucidly and with great style, eloquence even. Yet above all his books are a darn good read. This book is vividly written, fleshed out with characters and facts that are dispassionatly but richly detailed.
This book follows the course of Irish nationalism from the distant past of the Tudor wars and Anglo-Scottish Settlements up through the rise of DeVelera.
Its true strength is in parts two and three which recount, in great detail, the growth of Irish nationalist sentiment (and rebellion) and land reform/Catholic emancipation, during the 19th Century. Kee demonstrates clearly the ever so slight, but vital, strand of personal connection that linked Wolfe Tones' United Irishmen to Emmet, Parnell, the Fenians and eventually the I.R.A..
Part three details the rise of the Nationalist cause in the wake of Parnell's fall and the rise of the I.R.B./I.R.A. in the late Victorian era up through the Civil war of the 1920s. This book painted very clearly the horror of the Black and Tan war as well as the subsequently even more nasty Irish civil war.
Up until the 1970s a great many people in Ireland would not even speak to each other because of the bitterness engendered by the latter conflict. It spawned Ireland's two major parties and the emotions, recriminations and even hatred caused by the Collins/DeVelera conflict still has significant effect today. This era also shaped the course of the present day three I.R.A.s (Provisional,"Real" and "Stickie").
This book does not deal with the Present Ulster 'troubles' at all. But you can not understand them, nor modern Ireland without reading this book.
Above all, this book was written in a 'neutral' fashion, by an outsider, who deeply loved his subject. It lacks the usual bombast of many other slanted histories. At the same time none of the drama, emotion, glory nor hatred are lost in the telling.
To illustrate what I mean by the above review: in 1987 I asked a series of Irish politicians of all persuasions what history book would still be in print in 2037 and what volumes would they use if they had to teach Irish history to a class at Harvard. Every politician (except the Rev.Ian Paisley) mentioned this book.
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Title: Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland by Tim Pat Coogan ISBN: 0312295111 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 17 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: On Another Man's Wound: A Personal History of Ireland's War of Independence by Ernie O'Malley ISBN: 1589790049 Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Pub Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Killing Rage by Eamon Collins, Mick McGovern ISBN: 1862070474 Publisher: Granta Books Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Path to Freedom by Michael Collins, Tim Pat Coogan ISBN: 1568332130 Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Pub Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Bandit Country by Toby Harnden ISBN: 0340717378 Publisher: Trafalgar Square Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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