The Republic

Electric … [a] magisterial and essential book – Roy Foster * Irish Times *[A] tour de force … wonderful … brilliantly written history … Townshend’s book can only inspire admiration – John Lee * Irish Mail on Sunday *Highly detailed and rich … [a] magisterial and judicious narrative … this must surely be one of the definitive texts on this period of Anglo-Irish history – Mary Kenny * Literary Review *Charles Townshend’s monumental work [is] bold in ambition, scope and execution … a work of broad and confident understanding, characterised by a uniform care in its approach to complex and controversial material … An intensely compelling and often discomfiting narrative, which candidly explores four years of personal and intimate violence * Tablet *Magisterial … intensely gruelling but hugely impressive … for people who prefer to know the facts … [a] fine achievement of breathing new life into a subject that some historians might assume had already been done to death * Sunday Business Post *For those interested in a reliable and empathetic introduction to the topic, this is now the best place to start * BBC History Magazine *A great read … it has certainly set a very high standard for others to measure up to – Marianne Elliott * Times Higher Education *A well-sourced, severely objective account of the origins and courses of the wars that followed the Easter Rising * Irish Catholic *Charles Townshend’s The Republic … nails the Irish revolutionary events of 1918-23 with his inimitable kind of forensic panache – Roy Foster * Times Literary Supplement BOOKS OF THE YEAR *

Charles Townshend is the author of the highly praised Easter 1916-The Irish Rebellion. His other books include The British Campaigns in Ireland, 1919-21 and When God Made Hell- The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Making of Iraq, 1914-21.

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