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The 13th Apostle
- A Novel of a Dublin Family, Michael Collins, and the Irish Uprising
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
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The story - both romantic and terrifying - of how a handful of men, armed with nothing more than handguns and guts, forced the greatest nation in the world from their shores.
On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, the first great revolution of the twentieth century began as working-class men and women occupied buildings throughout Dublin, Ireland, including the general post office on O’Connell Street. Among the commoners in the GPO was a young staff captain of the Irish Volunteers named Michael Collins. He was joined a day later by a fourteen-year-old messenger boy, Eoin Kavanagh. Four days later they would all surrender, but they had struck the match that would burn Great Britain out of Ireland for the first time in seven hundred years.
The 13th Apostle is the reimagined story of how Michael Collins, along with his young acolyte Eoin, transformed Ireland from a colony into a nation. Collins’s secret weapon was his intelligence system and his assassination squad, nicknamed “The Twelve Apostles.” On November 21, 1920, the squad - with its thirteenth member, young Eoin - assassinated the entire British Secret Service in Dublin. Twelve months and sixteen days later, Collins signed the Treaty at 10 Downing Street, which brought into being what is, today, the Republic of Ireland.
An epic novel in the tradition of Thomas Flanagan’s The Year of the French and Leon Uris’s Trinity, The 13th Apostle is a story that will capture the imagination and hearts of freedom-loving readers everywhere.
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- Kindle Customer
- 22-11-15
1916- 2016 a rare story
Loved it, "a drink is as good as a payer".
An excellent insight into a tumultuous period in history.
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-01-22
enjoyed it, very good
Dev, executed lads in the 40s, he could never go to south Kerry after...Collins was a hero in our house
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- Sjm
- 21-08-22
I cried with loss at the end
An explosive look at the birth of the Irish Republic. Keating is just brilliant.
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- Barry Gethings
- 27-09-22
The best book I’ve listened to so far
Highly recommend this book, you won’t be disappointed if you are Irish as you will learn a lot from it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-10-22
A Gripping Tale
A gripping tale of men and history. A time in the history these isles.To be read and learnd less history repeats itself.
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- Mr. B. McLaren
- 04-11-23
super
loved this book great listen well read and extremely interesting story. a part of history I didn't know a lot about informative.
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- Catherine
- 09-01-15
Definitely Worth a read
As a lover of all aspects of Irish history I fully enjoyed this book. It's story is well told and thoroughly enjoyable. I also shed a tear when "The Big Fella" died. Although I found the parts set in the present day to be a bit too focused on sex. I just wanted to get back to the historical aspect of the book.
But overall I would recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the Easter Rising, the war of Independence and the civil War in Ireland. Michael Collins remains my hero as he does thousands of other people and this book did him justice.
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- Mr David King
- 02-09-21
great listen
what a great new angle on this period of history. I loved it from beginning to end
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- Angelcritique
- 13-04-24
Brings the characters and events to life
The storyline puts flesh on the historical characters: and the narrator gives a perfect performance. The factual aspects might be up for debate according to some listeners. But as a whole the work seems to line up pretty well with the history books I have studied so far. Excepting perhaps for the identity of who actually despatched General Michael Collins. My particular favourite aspect of the narration is the characterisation of Michael Collins because no where can I find a recording of his voice: and the vocalisation given to him here gave me some sense of the man. I heartily recommend this book to students of The Rising.
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- Phil B
- 24-05-18
The BEST
This is one of the best books I have read/listened to, not only for the storyline but the historical events and the understanding of how the characters were involved in the events. I would highly recommend
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