Seeing the Rising from a female perspective

This book is much more than a simple history

Countess Markievicz: Lucy McDiarmid’s history is the story of women as soldiers

History; At Home In The Revolution: What Women Said And Did In 1916; By Lucy McDiarmid; Royal Irish Academy, €26.60

In the torrent of history books published to mark the 1916 centenary, a small number will stand out as worthy of repeated reprint. Lucy McDiarmid’s At Home In The Revolution is one of those books. Its concept is innovative, its substance is enlightening and surprising, and its style and production are a joy ...