beautifully presented
-- Lucan, CLondalkin, Tallaght and Ballyfermot Echos
from the moment you pick up this book, you know it's a sacred object
-- Tintean
there is no shortage of books with information and background on the events and personalities involved in the Rising of 1916. As Ireland prepares to celebrate the centenary, there will be no doubt be more books, some praising those involved, some with a more critical view of the event. But for an emotional response, for something that may persuade us what happened was the outcome of good intentions and high nobility, we need to turn to the poets and how they perceived it ... a beautifully produced little book that makes the point more powerfully than a dozen treatises
-- Irish Echo
it falls within a range of titles released this month by the publisher inspired by 1916, which include Inside the GPO 1916 - A First-Hand Account and a collection entitled The 16 Lives Series, which offers a set of biographies of the 16 men executed in Easter Rising
-- irishpost.co.uk