Easter 1916

Enthralling and definitive . . . he writes with soldierly clarity but also delivers an emotional punch. -- Roy Foster * Times Literary Supplement *
The definitive account. . . . The book is fantastically detailed yet wonderfully readable. -- John Banville * Guardian *
Authoritative and compelling. . . . He writes with great clarity and has mined a formidable array of primary source material. * Irish Times *
Townshend is the first author to use the full compendium of the Irish Bureau of Military History records. * Historywire *
Vivid, authoritative and gripping, Easter 1916 is a major work. * Word Power *
Remarkably evenhanded and insightful. . . . The definitive study of the topic for all students of Irish History. * CHOICE *
The author may or may not have seen active military service but his interpretation of small unit actions and close-in fighting is sharp and realistic. -- John H. Carroll * Catholic News Service *
Peeling back the mythology to uncover the history. -- Martin Zimmerman * The San Diego Union-Tribune *
Summarizes some forty years of scholarship on the topic, adding its own dramatic flair and insights. . . . A quite vivid reenactment. * Library Bookwatch *
Marvelously rendered. . . . Townshend strips away . . . myth and tells the real story, which intensifies with the truth. * Blue Ridge Business Journal *
Townshend provides the most comprehensive and considered account of the rising, set in its time and place. -- Paul O'Brien * Socialist Review *
Anyone interested in Irish history, of whatever political views, should be grateful to [Townshend] for pulling this material together and . . . for the wealth of detail. * Livejournal *
Easter 1916 brings to life the group of remarkable men and women whose actions changed their nation forever. -- Mark Mitchell * Newsfromnowhere.Org *
This is a crisply written, balanced, and well-organized study. * Journal of Military History *
Townshend's is a dramatic story excellently told...that brings the reader back on the streets of the capital as a series of events changed forever how people on the island of Ireland would live their lives. * Dublin Sunday Times *
[Easter 1916] is not an under-studied topic, but Townshend handles it with a mastery of the background and the sources that makes his work exceptional. -- Michael Howard * Times Literary Supplement *