Book review: According to their Lights

A Corkman serving in the British army committed some of the worst atrocities of the Easter Rising. Ryle Dwyer salutes a book that tells the little-known tale of the Irish who fought on the ‘other’ side during the events of 1916.

IN THE past century there has been extensive, if not exhaustive coverage of the 1916 Rising, but this book makes a bold assertion.

“The story of the Easter Rising has never been fully told,” the author Neil Richardson asserts. “The story of one Irish aspect of the Rising has always been forgotten.” That is, of course, until now.