Thomas Clarke
Litton, Helen2014
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A fascinating examination of the life of Thomas Clarke, a member of the Fenians and a key leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1916.
Main title:
Thomas Clarke / Helen Litton.
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Imprint:
Dublin : The O'Brien Press, 2014.
Collation:
256 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
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"The name of Thomas J. Clarke may come first among the signatures on the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, but he has always been a poorly-defined character in the history of 1916. A born conspirator, Tom Clarke was in fact pivotal to the preparation for the Rising, but always in the background. His tobacconist's shop in central Dublin was a centre of IRB activity, and here he and his equally committed wife, Kathleen Daly, worked tirelessly for Ireland's freedom. Helen Litton, his great-niece by marriage, describes Clarke's early life, his fifteen years' imprisonment for dynamite offences, his early married life in the USA, his return to Ireland in 1908 and his gradual emergence as one of the most important figures in the IRB, recruiting young men such as Seán MacDiarmada and Patrick Pearse to the cause. Thomas Clarke was executed in Kilmainham Gaol on 3 May 1916, aged fifty-eight." _ cover.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781847172617 (pbk)
Dewey class:
941.591941.5282941.50821092
Language:
English
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BRN:
1371072