{"product_id":"bitter-freedom-maurice-walsh-9781631491955","title":"Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Irish Revolution has long been mythologized in American culture but seldom understood. Too often, the story of Irish independence and its grinding aftermath in the early part of the twentieth century has been told only within a parochial Anglo-Irish context. Now, in the critically acclaimed \u003cem\u003eBitter Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e, Maurice Walsh, with a novelist's eye for detailing lives in extremis (Feargal Keane, \u003cem\u003eProspect\u003c\/em\u003e), places revolutionary Ireland within the panorama of nationalist movements born out of World War I.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with the Easter Rising of 1916, \u003cem\u003eBitter Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e follows through from the War of Independence to the end of the post-partition civil war in 1924. Walsh renders a history of insurrection, treaty, partition, and civil war in a way that is both compelling and original. Breaking out this history from reductionist, uplifting narratives shrouded in misguided sentiment and romantic falsification, the author provides a gritty, blow-by-blow account of the conflict, from ambushes of soldiers and the swaggering brutality of the Black and Tan militias to city streets raked by sniper fire, police assassinations, and their terrible reprisals; \u003cem\u003eBitter Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e provides a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human face of the conflict. Walsh also weaves surprising threads into the story of Irish independence such as jazz, American movies, and psychoanalysis, examining the broader cultural environment of emerging modernity in the early twentieth century, and he shows how Irish nationalism was shaped by a world brimming with revolutionary potential defined by the twin poles of Woodrow Wilson in America and Vladimir Lenin in Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this \"invigorating account\" (\u003cem\u003eSpectator\u003c\/em\u003e), Walsh demonstrates how this national revolution, which captured worldwide attention from India to Argentina, was itself profoundly shaped by international events. \u003cem\u003eBitter Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e is the most vivid and dramatic account of this epoch to date (\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maurice Walsh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1631491954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781631491955\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.50w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2016 pg. 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2016","brand":"Maurice Walsh","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43984747823359,"sku":"9781631491955","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_54b42542-ca62-47f7-90a9-43144d66f4ee.jpg?v=1683273990","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bitter-freedom-maurice-walsh-9781631491955","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}