For the Cause of Liberty: A Thousand Years of Ireland's Heroes

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A reconstruction of one thousand years of Irish nationalism, covering each benchmark in Ireland's political evolution and presenting a tale of both the famous and the unsung patriots who changed the course of Ireland's history. Patriots who include Wolfe Tone, a leader of the 1798 rebellion who cut his own throat rather than submit to the hangman; and Kevin Barry, who was executed at 18 years old on the eve of independence, for not turning informer. This chronicle tells the stories of men and women, Catholics and Protestants, who enabled the Irish to be free from the yoke of colonial oppression.

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Frank McCourt The perfect book -- written with the skill of a storyteller, the clarity of a working journalist, the scholarship of a veteran historian. New York Post A fine and very readable history...as fresh as a just-poured pint of Guinness. Dennis Smith author of Report from Engine Co. 82 The telling of popular history at its best...Every page vibrates with authenti-city and excitement. Publishers Weekly An energetic and deeply informative work.

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Terry Golway is City Editor and columnist at The New York Observer. He is also a frequent contributor to the Irish Echo, America, American Heritage, The Boston Globe, The New York Times and other national publications. He is the author of Irish Rebel: John Devoy and America's Fight for Irelands's Freedom and coauthor of The Irish in America.