Gerry Hunt Boeken

From the author of Blood Upon the Rose comes a graphic novel depicting the War of Independence, a gruelling guerilla war against British rule in Ireland that pitted brother against brother.

The Easter 1916 Rising: an unlikely band of freedom fighters - teachers, poets, writers, patriots, trade unionists - declare an Irish Republic. From this dramatic gesture, a nation is born... The rebellion that set Ireland free, told as a graphic novel.

Dublin 1913 - Lockout Low-paid workers - under the leadership of Big Jim Larkin - organised themselves into Unions to insist on better conditions. The business world retaliated by locking them out of their jobs without pay ... how long could they hold out?

`Bobby' Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze. This graphic novel, the first of its kind, brings Bobby Sands' story to life in a whole new way.