Victory of Sinn Fein: How it Won it and How it Used it: How it Won it and How it Used it

by P.S. O'Hegarty

"The Victory of Sinn Fein", originally published in 1924, contains eyewitness accounts of the events in Ireland 1916-23, written from the viewpoint of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

160 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 1999

About the author

O'Hegarty, P. S. (1879–1955), historian and civil servant. Born in Co. Cork, O'Hegarty worked in the Post Office in London, where he was a major contributor to the IRB‐controlled paper Irish Freedom. He resigned in 1918, following the imposition on crown servants of an oath of allegiance, and returned to Ireland. He was later secretary of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs (1922–44). His historical works, strongly nationalist in tone, include The Victory of Sinn Féin (1924) and A History of Ireland under the Union (1952).

Reviews

[Hegarty · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5

I vary between liking the book and thinking it was okay. At times the authors knowledge of certain events is very clearly limited or shrouded in deep bias that he at least can acknowledge. For a broad overview over the political events leading to the civil war it's good but he tends to give his subjective opinion on something and declare it as fact. His opinion of the women's role in the war is laughably misogynistic even for his time as he dedicates entire chapters to describing them as violent hysterics that "corrupted" the fighting men into a frenzy.

[Differengenera · Rating 2 out of 5]

about as fawning a portrait of the treatyite faction as is possible to imagine, which would be fine if the author had anything interesting to say besides. a rant about how women's involvement in politics was 'a moral rot' at the heart of the Sinn Féin movement is typical; very funny that Garvin praises him as a true Fenian in his introduction

[Terry Woods · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting pro-free state apologia. Fascinating portraits of the leaders of the revolution, and a polemic against DeValera.