Sinéad McCoole
Auteur van No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years 1900-1923
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Sinead McCoole is on the Board of Visitors of Kilmainham Gaol Museum.
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- McCoole, Sinéad
- Geboortedatum
- 1968
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Ireland
- Geboorteplaats
- New York, New York, USA
- Opleiding
- University College Dublin
- Beroepen
- historian
broadcaster
author - Korte biografie
- Sinéad McCoole is an Irish historian, broadcaster and author.
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Reading the biographies also gave me a new perspective on the Troubles - when founding members of Sinn Féin were being buried with full military honors (which they undeniably deserved) into the late nineties, it's easier to see how people could keep justifying that level of violence. I also want to give a shout-out to the author for being nonpartisan throughout the entire book. She betrays no partiality to either side, British or Irish, Free State or Republican, pointing out the heroism and the atrocities in both, wherever it touches her story. It makes for decidedly uncomfortable reading sometimes, which I have to applaud.… (meer)