@article{717892,
      recid = {717892},
      author = {Golway, Terry,},
      title = {For the cause of liberty : a thousand years of Ireland's  heroes /},
      publisher = {Simon & Schuster,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {397 pages :},
      year = {2000},
      abstract = {The story of Irish nationalism, from the legendary king  Brian Boru, who united the chieftains of Ireland to drive  out the Vikings, to the conflict in Northern Ireland. In a  fast-paced narrative, Terry Golway tells a thousand years  of Irish history, describing the achievements of the  patriots who kept alive the dream of Irish freedom until  they finally succeeded. Among the stories--some famous,  some little-known--are those of Wolfe Tone, a leader of the  1798 rebellion who cut his own throat rather than submit to  a hangman; Kevin Barry, executed at age eighteen rather  than turn informer on the eve of independence in 1921;  Bobby Sands, an IRA militant who died on a hunger strike in  1981, calling international attention to the conflict in  Northern Ireland; and several remarkable women who played  pivotal roles. Golway also reveals that the struggle for  Irish freedom was not a strictly religious dispute; in  fact, many of the greatest heroes of the nationalist  movement were Protestants.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/717892},
}