James Stephens wrote these pages day by day during Easter Week 1916, walking Dublin’s streets as the Rising unfolded. Chapter by chapter from Monday to Saturday he records rumours, barricades, gunfire and the moods of ordinary Dubliners, then reflects on the leaders and the executions that followed.
A vivid eyewitness account of a turning point in Irish history from one of its finest prose writers. Download the free EPUB.