14.12.2016
Church of Ireland Online Bookstore Stocks Rebel Prods
The new book by the late Dr Valerie Jones entitled Rebel Prods: The Forgotten Story of Protestant Radical Nationalists and the 1916 Rising, is now available for sale through the Church Ireland online bookstore, priced €25 (at the link below). Any profit from the author royalties of the book (which was launched last month by the Rt Revd Walton Empey, at the Treasury in the crypt of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin) are being donated to the Irish Cancer Society.
The book which includes photographs is published by Ashfield Press Limited, and is the first overall study of the role of Protestant radical nationalists in planning, and participating in, the Easter rebellion and reveals that a far larger number were involved than previously known. Rejecting the unionism of their communities, Protestant nationalists were radicalised in similar ways to their Catholic counterparts before 1916, through kinship and friendship networks and the Gaelic League, and held important roles in the IRB, the Irish Citizen Army and Cumann na mBan.
The revolutionary generation of 1916 spanned the deep religious divisions in the Ireland of the time – while still a predominantly Catholic uprising, the 1916 rebellion was more religiously diverse than its later historical image suggests. Based upon a range of detailed sources, this study reveals the significant collective contribution of Irish radical Protestants to the Rising and their fate in the new Irish Free State.
A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Dr Valerie Jones (1943–2014) was a lecturer at the Church of Ireland College of Education, Rathmines, and Diocesan Communications Officer for the Church of Ireland Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough.
Further details and how to order the book are available here: https://store.ireland.anglican.org/store/product/120/rebel-prods-the-forgotten-story-of