 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
THE BLOODIED FIELD
CROKE PARK - SUNDAY 21 NOVEMBER 1920 |
| By: |
Michael Foley |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
|
£14.99 |
|
We believe that this item is permanently unavailable, and so we cannot source
it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
1847173187 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781847173188 |
| Publisher: |
O'BRIEN PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
20 October, 2014 |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Description: |
An account of the dramatic events at Croke Park following the IRA assassination of British military agents in Dublin, resulting in the shooting dead of fourteen people by the Royal Irish Constabulary. Includes the social/political scene and describing events from the perspective of the Irish and British participants. |
| Synopsis: |
On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiance to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across the city fourteen men lay dead in their beds after a synchronised IRA attack designed to cripple British intelligence services in Ireland. Trucks of police and military rumbled through the city streets as hundreds of people clamoured at the metal gates of Dublin Castle seeking refuge. Some of them were headed for Croke Park. Award-winning journalist and author Michael Foley recounts the extraordinary story of Bloody Sunday in Croke Park and the 90 seconds of shooting that changed Ireland forever. In a deeply intimate portrait he tells for the first time the stories of those killed, the police and military personnel who were in Croke Park that day, and the families left shattered in its aftermath, all against the backdrop of a fierce conflict that stretched from the streets of Dublin and the hedgerows of Tipperary to the halls of Westminster. |
| Illustrations: |
13 black & white halftones |
| Publication: |
Ireland |
| Imprint: |
O'Brien Press Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Gaelic Athletic Association Best GAA Publication 2014. |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|