Contentious memoirs of a 1916 rebel commander

Dublin Burning: The Easter Rising from Behind the Barricades

**By WJ Brennan-Whitmore**

**Gill & Macmillan, €20**

**Reviewed by Dermot Bolger**

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Years ago, I worked in Dublin's mobile libraries, located in a dilapidated former newspaper office. When its book store was torched by glue sniffers, the rare books destroyed included a collection of poorly produced, badly written and sometimes downright bizarre commemorative pamphlets about the Easter Rising, published to cash in on its ...