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Shootout: The Battle For St Stephen's Green, 1916 (1916 in Focus)
Shootout The Battle For St Stephen's Green 1916 - 1916 in Focus Author:Paul O'Brien Military Historian Paul O'Brien explores one of the most complex and most misunderstood episodes of the 1916 Rising: the battle for St Stephen's Green. As the Proclamation of the Irish Republic was being read from the steps of the General Post Office on Sackville Street on Easter Monday 24th April 1916, 160 members of the Irish Citizen Army unde... more »r Commandant Michael Mallin were taking up position around St Stephen's Green. For seven days, from their posts in St Stephen's Green and City Hall, this small force of men and women fought against British soldiers as they struggled to protect the newly proclaimed Irish Republic. For almost a century, accusations of poor strategic awareness and a lack of organisation have been levelled against Mallin and his force for their actions during that Easter week. In this new work, Paul O'Brien shows that, despite being outnumbered and outgunned, Mallin carried out his orders and fought with tenacity during this vital part of the Easter Rising. "Paul O'Brien's expertise on the period and fascination with it shines through..." - Entertainment.ie on Crossfire Paul O'Brien is the author of three previous books on the 1916 Rising: Blood on the Streets, Uncommon Valour and Crossfire: The Battle of the Four Courts 1916. He lives in Dublin.« less