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© Richard Killeen 2007, 2014
First published by Gill & Macmillan 2007
This ebook edition published by Gill & Macmillan 2014
978 07171 4083 1 (print)
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Cover photographs: (top) View of destruction post the Rising, courtesy Getty Images; (bottom) Harry Boland, Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera at the first meeting of Dáil Éireann, Mansion House, Dublin, courtesy National Library of Ireland
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