We are entering the years of commemoration centered on the centenary of the Irish Easter Rising. This generously illustrated popular history looks backward and forward from the Rising and surveys the entire period of the Irish Revolution. Beginning with the Ulster crisis of 1912, it traces the turbulent events of the following years down to the final report of the Boundary Commission in 1925 which stabilized the border between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. The series of events, so vividly described in this book and so generously illustrated with photographs and maps, have made the island that we know.