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Human heart of a tragedy
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The maker of modern Ireland
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The gross incompetence behind Gallipoli
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The GPO and the Rising revisited
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The need to memorialise
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Notes from a contested island
HISTORY: We Declare: Landmark Documents in Ireland's History by Richard Aldous and Niamh Puirséil, Quercus, 216pp
Little did they know
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Letters from an unselfconscious revolution
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Remembering the Rising
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