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Dublin 1916 : The Siege of the GPO, Paperback / softback Book

Dublin 1916 : The Siege of the GPO Paperback / softback

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It was taken over by the Irish Volunteers on Easter Monday 1916 and held for nearly a week.

But the rebels finally surrendered the GPO to the Crown forces after heavy gun bombardment, and the ensuing conflagration reduced the building to an empty shell and destroyed much of the centre of the city. Clair Wills' rich and rewarding book recounts the dramatic events of Easter Week.

But she also tracks the obsession with Dublin's iconic edifice through literature, film and art, exploring the twists and turns that the myth of the GPO has undergone in the last century.

It has stood for sacrifice and treachery, national unity and divisive violence, for the future and the past.

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