Pathway to Rebellion: Galway 1916

By William Henry

Galway was one of the few places outside Dublin that rose in rebellion during the Easter Rising in 1916. In Pathway to Rebellion William Henry starts by charting the county's rebellious past, which encouraged the Galway Volunteers to take a stand when many other parts of the country failed to do so. Long a centre of land agitation, Galway's people were no strangers to fighting for what they believed in. When the Rising broke out, companies of Volunteers from the east and south of Galway county, supported by Gumann na mBan, mobilised on the Tuesday of Easter Week and prepared to face a better armed and numerically superior enemy. Forced to disband when Dublin surrendered, many of the people involved were interned or went on the run, until public opinion changed and they were welcomed home as heroes. Covering the entire story of Galway's Rising, this is the definitive story of 1916 in the west. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781174032
• ISBN13: 9781781174036
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Mercier Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.7"