Exploring 1916 Booklist
General
Poets of the Insurrection: Pearse, Plunkett, McDonagh, and McEntee (1918)
Barry, Michael B., Courage boys, we are winning: an illustrated history of the 1916 Rising (2015)
Caulfield, Max, The Easter Rebellion (1995)
Coffey, Thomas M., Agony at Easter: The 1916 Uprising (1969)
Connell, Joseph E. A., Dublin Rising 1916 (2015)
Coogan, Tim Pat, 1916: The Easter Rising (2001)
Doherty, Gabriel (ed), 1916: The long revolution (2007)
Dorney, John, Peace after the final battle: the story of the Irish revolution 1912 – 1924 (2014)
Edwards, Owen Dudley & Pyle, Fergus (eds), 1916: The Easter Rising (1968)
Ferriter, Diarmaid, A nation and not a rabble: the Irish revolution 1913 -23 (2015)
Fitzgerald, Mairead, A terrible beauty: the poetry of 1916 (2015)
Killeen, Richard, A short history of the 1916 Rising (2009)
McNamara, Conor, The Easter Rebellion 1916: a new illustrated history (2015)
Matthews, Ann, Renegades: Irish Republican women 1900-1922 (2010)
O’Brien, Fran, 1916 (2014)
O’Bróin, Léon, Dublin Castle and the 1916 Rising (1970)
O’ Cathasaigh, Aindrias, Na bac leis: rogha as nuactan reibiliunach (2015)
O’Farrell, Mick, 1916: what the people saw (2013)
Ryan, Desmond, The 1916 Poets (1995)
Townshend, Charles, Easter 1916: the Irish rebellion (2006)
Background
Bew, Paul, Ideology and the Irish Question 1912-1916 (1994)
Collins, Peter, Nationalism and Unionism, Conflict in Ireland 1885 – 1921, 1994
Foster, R.F., Vivid Faces: the revolutionary generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 (2014)
Go Muiri, Silvester, Na hOglaigh sna Deise, 1913-1916 (2015)
Gregory, Augusta (ed.), Ideals in Ireland (1901)
Martin, F.X., The Irish Volunteers 1913 – 1915, recollections and documents (1963)
Mitchell, Henry Robert, The Evolution of Sinn Fein (192-)
Moore, George, Hail and Farewell (1925)
Nowlan, Kevin B. (ed), The Making of 1916: studies in the history of the Rising
(1969)
Thompson, William Irwin, The Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916 (1967)
Easter Week 1916
Sinn Féin Rebellion Handbook, Easter 1916 (1916)
Brennan-Whitmore, W.J., Dublin burning: the Easter Rising from behind the barricades (2013)
De Róiste, Risteárd, Loch Garman agus Éirí Amach 1916 (2006)
Dublin’s fighting story, 1913 1919, told by the men who made it (195?)
Ferguson, Stephen, GPO staff in 1916: business as usual (2012)
Good, Joe, Inside the GPO 1916: a first-hand account (2015)
Hegarty, Shane, The Irish Times book of the 1916 Rising (2006)
Henry, Elsie, The world upturning: Elsie Henry’s Irish wartime diaries, 1913 – 1919 (2013)
Irish Life, A Record of the Irish Rebellion of 1916 (1916)
Irish Times, Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook (1916)
Jeffery, Keith, The GPO and the Easter Rising (2006)
Kearns, Linda, In times of peril, leaves from the diary of nurse Linda Kearns, from easter week (1921)
Matthews, Ann, The Kimmage garrison, 1916: making Billy-can bombs at Larkfield (2010)
O’Brien, Paul, Battleground: the battle for the General Post Office, 1916 (2015)
Pictorial Review of 1916 (1946)
Redmond-Howard, L.G., Six days of the Irish republic: a narrative and critical account of the latest
phase of Irish Politics (1916)
Ryan, Desmond, The Rising: The Complete Story of Easter Week (1949)
Stephens, James, The Insurrection in Dublin (1916)
Willis, Clair, Dublin 1916: the siege of the GPO (2009)
Participants and Onlookers
There are far too many biographies of the main figures of the 1916 Rising to list them all; here we
have included some of the works which are either considered the definitive biographies or have
sparked on-going debate in terms of the treatment of their subjects. The Dictionary of Irish
Biography, held in the Reading Room of Dublin City Library and Archive, is a valuable resource for
information on some of the lesser known participants in the Rising.
The 1916 Rising - Oral History Collection Spoken Word CD Collection (2013)
Augusteijn, Joost, Patrick Pearse, the making of a revolutionary (2010)
Barton, Brian, From Behind a Closed Door (2002)
Bateson, Ray, They died by Pearse’s side (2010)
Bateson, Ray, The Rising Dead: RIC and DMP (2012)
Byrne, F.J., and Martin, F.X., The Scholar Revolutionary, Eoin McNeill 1867 – 1945 and the Making of
the New Ireland (1875)
Burke-Rice, Eleanor, A daughter’s memories of her mother’s activities from 1916 to 1923 (2004)
Clare, Anne, Unlikely Rebels: the Gifford girls and the fight for Irish nationalism (2011)
Clarke, Kathleen, Revolutionary woman: Kathleen Clarke 1878 – 1972, an autobiography (1991)
Clarke, Thomas J., Glimpses of an Irish Felon’s Prison Life (1922)
Connell, Joseph E. A., Who’s who in the Dublin Rising 1916 (2015)
Connolly, James, Between Comrades: James Connolly letters and correspondence 1889 – 1916 (2007)
Dublin and the Sinn Fein Rising (1916)
Duffy, Joe, Children of the Rising: the untold story of the young lives lost during Easter 1916 (2015)
Edwards, Ruth Dudley, Patrick Pearse: The Triumph of Failure (1977)
Fallon, Donal, John MacBride (2015)
Figgis, Darrell, A chronicle of jails (2015)
Figgis, Darrell, Recollections of the Irish war (1927)
Finn, Tessa, Letters – May & James: a private love in a revolutionary year – 1916 (2015)
Fitzgerald, Desmond, Desmond’s Rising, memoirs, 1913 to Easter 1916, 2006
Kerrigan, Gene, The scrap: a true story from the 1916 rising (2015)
Kostick, Conor, Michael O’Hanrahan (2015)
Mac Lochlainn, ed., Last words and statements of the leaders executed after the Rising at Easter
1916 (1971)
McCoole, Sinead, Easter Widows: (seven Irish women who lived in the shadow of the 1916 Rising)
(2015)
McDiarmid, Lucy, At home in the revolution: what women said and did in 1916 (2015)
McGarry, Fearghal, The Abbey rebels of 1916: a lost revolution (2015)
Markievicz, Constance, Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz (1934)
Martin, F. X., Leaders and Men of the Easter Rising, Dublin 1916 (1967)
Mee, Jeremiah, Memoirs of Constable Jeremiah Mee (1975)
Morrissey, Thomas J., From Easter Week to Flanders Field: the diaries and letters of John Delaney SJ,
1916-1919 (2015)
Murphy, Brian P., Patrick Pearse and the Lost Republican Ideal (1991)
Ni Ghairbhi, Roisin, Willie Pearse (2015)
Norway, Mary Louisa, The Sinn Fein Rebellion as They Saw It (1999)
O’Callaghan, John, Con Colbert (2015)
O’Farrell, Mick, The 1916 Diaries: of an Irish rebel and a British soldier (2014)
O’Gaora, Colm, On the Run: the story of an Irish freedom fighter (2011)
O’Higgin,s, Brian, The Soldier’s Story of Easter Week (1966)
O’Kelly, Seamus G., The Glorious Seven (1965)
Quinn, James (ed), 1916 Portraits and Lives (2015)
Richardson, Neil David, According to their lights: stories of Irishmen in the British Army, Easter 1916
(2015)
Shouldice, Frank, Grandpa the sniper: the remarkable story of a 1916 volunteer (2015)
Skinnider, Margaret, Doing my bit for Ireland (1917)
Taillon, Ruth, When history was made: the women of 1916 (1996)
The Sinn Fein Revolt Illustrated (1916)
Ward, Margaret, Unmanagable revolutionaries: women and Irish nationalism (1995)
Whearity, Peter F., The Easter Rising of 1916 in north County Dublin: a Skerries perspective (2013)
Wren, Jimmy, The GPO garrison Easter Week 1916; a biographical dictionary (2015)
The Aftermath of 1916
Brennan-Whitmore, W.J., With the Irish in Frongoch (2013)
Browne, Father Paddy (ed), Aftermath of Easter Week (1917)
Costello, Francis, The Irish revolution and its aftermath 1916 – 1923 (2011)
Coogan, Tim Pat, 1916: the mornings after: from the courts martial to the tribunals (2015)
Ebenezer, Lyn, Fron-goch camp 1916 and the birth of the IRA (2012)
Enright, Seán, Easter Rising 1916: The trials (2014)
Great Britain, Royal Commission on the Rebellion in Ireland, Minutes of evidence and appendix of
documents (1916)
Gregory, Augusta, Lady Gregory’s Journals 1916 -1 930 (1946)
Laffan, Michael, The Resurrection of Ireland: the Sinn Fein Party, 1916-1923 (1999)
Macardle, Dorothy, The Irish Republic (1937)
McNally, Michael, Easter Rising 1916: birth of the Irish republic (2007)
O’Brien, Brendan, O’Brien pocket history of the IRA from 1916 onwards (2007)
O’Donnell, Ruan, The impact of the 1916 rising: among the nations (2008)
O’Keeffe, Jane O’Hea, Recollections of 1916 and its aftermath: echoes from history (2005)
Rebel Ireland, thoughts on Easter Week, 1916, by E. Sylvia Pankhurst; Scenes from the Rebellion by
Patricia Lynch; The first Sinn Fein member of Parliament by May O’Callaghan (1919)
Redmond-Howard, L.G., Six days of the Irish Republic: a narrative and critical account of the latest
phase of Irish politics (1916)
Ryan, Anne-Marie, 16 Dead Men: the Easter Rising executions (2014)
Sheehan, William, Fighting for Dublin: the British battle for Dublin 1919-1921 (2007)
Wells, Warre B., A history of the Irish Rebellion (1916)
Williams, Desmond, The Irish Struggle 1916-1926 (1966)
Remembering the Rising
Bateson, Ray, Memorials of the Easter Rebellion (2013)
Cronin, Sean, Our own red Blood: the story of the 1916 Rising (1966)
Daly, Mary E. (ed), 1916 in 1966: commemorating the Easter Rising (2007)
Doherty, Gabriel, 1916 the long revolution (2007)
Graff-McRae, Rebecca, Remembering and forgetting 1916: commemoration and conflict in postpeace process Ireland (2010)
Greaves, C. Desmond, 1916 as history: the myth of the blood sacrifice (1991)
Higgins, Roisin, Transforming 1916: meaning, memory and the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter
Rising (2012)
Hodges Figgis, The Rising of 1916 and the struggle for independence: catalogue 20 (1966)
McHugh, Roger, Dublin 1916 (1966)
Neeson, Eoin, Myths from Easter 1916 (2008)
O’ Keeffe, Helene, To speak of Easter week: family memories of the Irish Revolution (2015)