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eASter riSinG 1916:
THE TRIALS
Author: Seán Enright
publisher: Merrion (Imprint of Irish
Academic Press, December 2013)
iSbn: 978-1-908928-37-5
pages: 259
price: €17.95
WITH OVER 3,000 men and women rounded up
after the rebellion, nearly 2,000 were deported and interned and
160 tried by Field General Courts Martial. 90 death sentences were
passed and 15 were carried out, this book is a one stop shop for
those records.
Starting with a summary of the rebellion and the subsequent
surrender before laying out the trial's process, the book then
assesses the trials of PH Pearse, Thomas Clarke, Joseph Plunkett,
James Connolly as well as many others, which were carried out
with no representation or media allowed in. It also places in a
historical context many of the now famous locations from that
period; the GPO, the Four Courts, Jacob's Factory, the Mendicity
Institute, the South Dublin Union, Bolands Mill and St. Stephen's
Green.
Easter Rising 1916: The Trials, brings forward many unpublished
trial records, creating new insights into this turbulent yet pivotal
period in Irish History. It is a comprehensive compilation that was
methodically researched, with an easy to follow format telling the
story of how our 1916 heroes that survived The Rising were put on
trial by the occupying British Forces - and is a follow up to Enright's
previous work, The Trials of Civilians by Military Courts: Ireland 1921.
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About tHe AutHor
Seán Enright was called to the bar at Middle Temple (1982) and
The Four Courts (1993), he practiced at the bar in London and is
now a Circuit Judge. his previous book: The Trial of Civilians by
Military Courts: Ireland 1921, was published in February 2012 by
Irish Academic Press, priced €20.00, ISbN: 978-0-716531-33-3.
