Buy this book on-line O'FLAHERTY, LIAM: : INSURRECTIONLONDON.GOLLANCZ,1950. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,slim 12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn. [Precedes the US,HB+dw/dj,1st edn by a year.Author's last novel,though he did write a short story several years later.] VG+.Although a Plymouth ex-proprietary library copy with library's paper adhesive bookplate to front pastedown and with an ink an inked oblique line drawn across the label and a handwritten Withdrawn+date inscrptn to it too,there are no other library alpha-numerical notations anywhere in or to the book - internally or externally.A further unused EX-Libris white+brown illustrated National Trust Bookplate designed by John Sutcliffe for them,to top edge of front free endpaper. Bookplates aside - no owner inscrptn.Top+ fore-edges aged/toned with negligible spotting/foxing; contents tight,solid and sound - text body with some minor,but very minimal foxing - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher's clean,sharp-cornered,original green cloth boards with black ink blocked letters to a slightly darkened spine/backstrip which also has minimal bumping to head+foot of same.Clean plain white endpapers,bookplates excepted,both hinges solid without any cracking or splits present.UK,slim 12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,5-254pp [paginated] includes XXIV (24) chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages.
This,the author's last novel,follows a diverse group of characters who are caught up in the events of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.The group are dispatched to defend the main road from Dublin to Dun Laoghaire (Dublin’s main port) from the expected arrival of British reinforcements.The novel explores each man’s motivations,fears and hopes through the battles and violence which ensue.
The principal characters are: The uneducated,slow-witted Bartly Madden; Kinsella, the disciplined commander of a small band of insurgents; Stapleton,an anarchist and would-be poet; and Tommy Colgan,a youth consumed by fear and self-doubt.
Liam O'Flaherty b. 28th August,1896 – d. 7th September,1984,was an Irish novelist and short-story writer,and one of the foremost socialist writers in the first part of the 20th century, writing about the common people's experience and from their perspective.Although a native Irish-speaker from the Gaeltacht,O'Flaherty wrote almost exclusively in English,except for a play, a notable collection of short stories and some poems in the Irish language.He aligned himself with the Irish Renaissance literary movement.
Due to censorship in Ireland,all of O’Flaherty's novels were first printed outside Ireland.He was supported and championed by Edward Garnett.
See my previous 3 alpha-numerical book IDs' rja9533-rja9535 inclusive for other Garnett-related items [father+son].
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