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Wounds, a memoir of love and war, Fergal Keane

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Wounds, a memoir of love and war, Fergal Keane

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-336) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

portraitsmapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wounds

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Fergal Keane

Sub title

a memoir of love and war

Summary

A powerful memoir about Irish people who found themselves caught up in the revolution that followed the 1916 Rising, and in the pitiless violence of civil war in north Kerry after the British left in 1922. It is the story of Keane's grandmother Hannah Purtill, her brother Mick and his friend Con Brosnan, and how they and their neighbours took up guns to fight the British Empire and create an independent Ireland. And it is the story of another Irishman, Tobias O'Sullivan, who fought against them as a policeman because he believed it was his duty to uphold the law of his country. Many thousands of people took part in the War of Independence and the Civil War that followed. Whatever side they chose, all were changed in some way by the costs of violence. Keane uses the experiences of his ancestral homeland in north Kerry to examine why people will kill for a cause and how the act of killing reverberates through the generations

Table Of Contents

1. The Night Sweats with Terror -- 2. The Ground Beneath Their Feet -- 3. My Dark Fathers -- 4. Revolution -- 5. Tans -- 6. The Abode of Wolves -- 7. Sunshine Elsewhere -- 8. Assassins -- 9. Between Gutter and Cart -- 10. Executions -- 11. The Republic Bold -- 12. The War of the Brothers -- 13. A New Ireland -- 14. Inheritance -- 15. Afterwards

Target audience

adult

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