The bitter taste of victory

Few accounts of the final stand by the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising on Dublin’s Moore Street bother to mention Bridget McKane, a 16year-old girl who was sheltering with her family when their cottage door was shot open by a volunteer, who killed

Liberation: The Bitter Road to Freedom, Europe 1944-1945

By William I Hitchcock Faber, €30

Few accounts of the final stand by the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising on Dublin’s Moore Street bother to mention Bridget McKane, a 16 year-old girl who was sheltering with her family when their cottage door was shot open by a volunteer, who killed her and gravely wounded her father.

It is not that historians deliberately forgot her; ...