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Survivors - subtitled ''The story of Ireland's struggle as told through some of the outstanding living people recalling events from the days of Davitt , through James Connolly, Brugha, Collins, De Valera, Liam Mellows and Rory O'Connor to the present time' related to Uinseann Mac Eoin with portraits of the survivors by Colman Doyle''
The work is important for a number of reasons - it was taken at the very last opportunity before the death of many of those who recalled events. MacEoin produced a number of important histories of the Irish republican movement, including this groundbreaking oral history collection Survivors, in which he interviewed veterans of the revolutionary period. This was also an important work for another reason, as some veterans of the 1916-23 period had refused to talk to the Bureau of Military History, a state initiative to record their first hand testimonies. It was left to republicans like Ernie O’Malley and MacEoin to gather important memories. He also compiled The IRA in the Twilight Years, which told the story of the republican movement after its defeat in the Civil War. Mac Eoin himself was a noted campaigner for the retention of Georgian Dublin.
First published 1980, by Argenta Publications. Testimony from the following, Frank Edwards, Peadar O'Donnell, Maire Comerford, Sean MacBride, Pax Ó Faoiláin, Eithne Coyne, Neil Gillespie, , Connie Neenan, Tom Maguire, Peter Carleton, Tony Woods, Sighle Bean Uí Dhonnchadha, John Joe Sheehy, May Dálaigh, Con Casey and Walter Mitchell.
As well as the testimonies from all the above, there are a number of appendices gathered from others - and listed as follows - The Mountjoy Prison Escape 1925 / George and Charlie Gilmore /Cora Hughes/
(All by George Gilmore)
De Valera and the IRA / Dev and the Oath / Dev and the Statute of Westminster / Annuities campaign/Spa Hotel meeting/stunts/Sean Russell / Sean MacBride / An Phoblacht / ( all by Maurice Twomey)
The London Associates of Michael Collins /
Arthur Griffith/( by the author Uinseann mac Eoin)
Charlie McGuinness/ ( Desmond Greaves)
The Fight at Upton Station/Intelligence officers in Munster/ By Tom Kelleher
Account of Volunteeer M/
Eve of Conflict by Emmet Humphreys
466 pages, with index appendices, footnotes which note discrepancies in the accounts from previously published work , or add notes for context, maps to front and back endpapers, solid in tan coloured paper dustjacket, light scuffing only. includes photographs of all those who spoke to the author .
The tan coloured dustjacket is scuffed heavily, and with closed tears, stain to head of spine ( externally only) Now in a clear plastic jacket protector. Small area of paper loss at head of dustjacket.
