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The Summer Soldiers: The 1798 Rebellion in Antrim and Down

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Step by step the planned revolution unfolds. The Irish, preparing pikes, organizing, and plotting betrayal against themselves.

Treachery and battle. Summer soldiers is a sometines exausting account of the failed rebellion against the Ascendancy.

This really is a minute to minute account of what happened.

That is this books best quality. It's so detailed it's hard to really accept. But the footnotes are there, and they reveal not only a failed rebellion (that is still relevant to the IRA and the RUC) but the details of how mass planning under duress comes together....and falls apart.

Essential for any student of Irish HIstory. Essential for anyone who needs to understand the rebelious masses. Essential to anyone interested in contemporary Irish politics.

This was the event that created todays nightmare in Ireland.

A very well reasearched book. It deals with that momentous year that changed Ireland for years to come. The locations are well described and even today one can go to these places and see for themselves the actual location as the events unfolded. A must read for any one interested in Irish history. The united Irishmen were united against Britain for Freedom.