How Long to Read Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923

How Long Does it Take to Read Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923?

It takes the average reader 8 hours to read Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 by R. F. Foster

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Description

A masterful history of Ireland’s Easter Rising told through the lives of ordinary people who forged a revolutionary generation. On Easter Monday, 1916, Irish rebels poured into Dublin’s streets to proclaim an independent republic. Ireland’s long struggle for self-government had suddenly become a radical and bloody fight for independence from Great Britain. Irish nationalists mounted a week-long insurrection, occupying public buildings and creating mayhem before the British army regained control. The Easter Rising provided the spark for the Irish revolution, a turning point in the violent history of Irish independence. In this highly original history, acclaimed scholar R. F. Foster explores the human dimension of this pivotal event. He focuses on the ordinary men and women, Yeats’s “vivid faces,” who rose “from counter or desk among grey / Eighteenth-century houses” and took to the streets. A generation made, not born, they rejected the inherited ways of the Church, their bourgeois families, and British rule. They found inspiration in the ideals of socialism and feminism, in new approaches to love, art, and belief. Drawing on fresh sources, including personal letters and diaries, Foster summons his characters to life. We meet Rosamond Jacob, who escaped provincial Waterford for bustling Dublin. On a jaunt through the city she might visit a modern art gallery, buy cigarettes, or read a radical feminist newspaper. She could practice the Irish language, attend a lecture on Freud, or flirt with a man who would later be executed for his radical activity. These became the roots of a rich life of activism in Irish and women’s causes. Vivid Faces shows how Rosamond and her peers were galvanized to action by a vertiginous sense of transformation: as one confided to his diary, “I am changing and things around me change.” Politics had fused with the intimacies of love and belief, making the Rising an event not only of the streets but also of the hearts and minds of a generation.

How long is Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923?

Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 by R. F. Foster is 480 pages long, and a total of 120,000 words.

This makes it 162% the length of the average book. It also has 147% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 55 minutes to read Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 aloud.

What Reading Level is Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923?

Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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