"A truly remarkable piece of work, on a heroic scale. It forms a complex, illuminating narrative of the lived experience of armed conflict, the nature of insurgent forces and their relationship with the people, and the
operations of the security forces. Exceptional."-Charles Townshend, author of Easter 1916
"Promises to be the outstanding volume of the decade of commemorations."-Tom Bartlett, editor of The Cambridge History of Ireland
"Unique and powerful. A towering monument to all those who died as a result of the Irish Revolution."-Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern Irish History, University College Dublin
"This astonishing work intimately documents the deaths of the Irish Revolution. It will transform scholarship on the period."-Margaret O'Callaghan, author of British High Politics and a Nationalist Ireland