W J Brennan Whitmore: 2 books
Dublin Burning: The Easter Rising From Behind the Barricades
The Only Eye-Witness Account of the Easter Rising written by a senior participant
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Dublin Burning is a vivid, clear-eyed account of the 1916 Rising and is the most complete account we have from a senior participant. No other senior Volunteer figure has left a similar memoir of Easter Week.
Commandant W.J. Brennan-Whitmore was officer commanding the Volunteer position at the...
by Mr W. J. Brennan-Whitmore
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
For eight months following the Easter Rising over 1,800 Irish rebels were imprisoned in Frongoch, a former whiskey distillery in North Wales. It soon became a University of Revolution and among its notable alumni were Michael Collins and Richard Mulcahy. By December 1916 all the Irish prisoners had...