{"product_id":"1916-irelands-revolutionary-tradition","title":"1916 - Ireland's Revolutionary Tradition","description":"The Easter Rising of 1916, in which just over a thousand Irish rebels seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed the independence of the Irish Republic before being brutally suppressed by the vastly larger and better-equipped British Army, is an event whose meaning remains contested to this day. For some it represents a blood sacrifice without the hope—or even the intention­—of success. For others, it was the first act in a tumultuous political drama played out in Dublin streets and London cabinet rooms that led to the eventual formation of an independent Irish state. In 1916 , Kieran Allen argues that this pivotal moment in Irish history has been obscured by those who see it only as a prelude for a war of independence. Emphasizing an often ignored social and political radicalism at the heart of the rebellion, he shows that it gave birth to a revolutionary tradition that continues to haunt the Irish elite. Socialist aspirations mixed, and sometimes clashed, with the republican current, but both were crushed in a counterrevolution that accompanied the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921. The result today is a partitioned Ireland that acts as a neoliberal tax haven for multinational corporations—a state of affairs quite alien to both Connolly’s and Pearse’s vision. Published to coincide with the Rising’s centennial, 1916: Ireland’s Revolutionary Tradition re-establishes the political role of socialist republican figures, offers a highly accessible history of the Easter Rising, and explores the militancy and radicalism that continues to haunt the Irish elite one hundred years later.","brand":"Thryft Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":39923956678737,"sku":"DA962","price":9.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":39923956711505,"sku":"DA962","price":7.92,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":39923956744273,"sku":"DA962","price":6.34,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Well Read","offer_id":39923956777041,"sku":"DA962","price":5.07,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0110\/0598\/4849\/files\/26153684.jpg?v=1717757971","url":"https:\/\/thryft.sbs\/products\/1916-irelands-revolutionary-tradition","provider":"Thryft","version":"1.0","type":"link"}