Intimate and historic conversations with people prominent in Irish life. These voices range from the end of the nineteenth century to the latter half of the twentieth. Voices from politics, art, theatre, sport, religion, revolution. They are Ireland - complex, simple, fierce, gentle, mythical, real. This book is a valuable social document. Interviews with three Women of the Revolution of 1916 are a special feature. From first-hand experience these women bring those unique events to life as they tell the intimate details and document the part played by women in Ireland's major revolution.