Perhaps surprisingly given the chapter naming convention used here, the story is not told by the sisters or their mother, after whom all eighty-seven chapters are episodically named, but by an omniscient narrator. The resultant booty of thought-provoking literature on this episode of British/Irish relations has something for all tastes: non-fiction guides, essays, biographies as well as plenty of historical fiction, now including Rebel Sisters an entertaining and informative women’s fiction perspective. The centenary of ‘The Rising’ in Ireland has despatched a battalion of excellent (mainly Irish) writers off on a research and remind mission.
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