Author: Pakenham, Thomas,
Title: THE YEAR OF LIBERTY - The story of the great Irish Rebellion of 1798.
Description: Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1969, 1st edn., 416pp, half tone pictorial frontis, 24pp half tone photo ills., 5 in text maps, maps at endpapers, light green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the violent and tragic Irish rebellion of 1798, the result of Pitt's lack of any policy for Ireland leading to the abuse of power by a weak British viceroy bullied by Irish Protestants, together with the misplaced optimism of Wolf Tone and the Irish revolutionaries, heavy, lightly rubbed at extrems., light tanning and faint foxing to edges, some marks to coloured upper edge, dustwrapper: rubbed with very slight loss at extrems., tear upper edge upper panel neatly repaired to reverse, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

Keywords: history ireland rebellion britain france jacobin pitt wolf tone wexford


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