The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic

"Ruth Dudley Edwards offers astute pen portraits of the leaders of the 1916 Rebellion. Her analysis of how these complex men, idealistic but also uncompromising, led a rebellion is a superb introduction to this period of momentous change in Irish history."
—Colm Tóibín, bestselling author of Brooklyn and Nora Webster

On the morning of Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven men who made up the Military Council of the secret Irish Republican Brotherhood gathered i…