Insurrection
by .Little, Brown, $3.00.
The author of The Informer gives us another superbly written story of violence in Ireland, this time an account of the Dublin Easter Uprising of 1916. Bartley Madden, grievously afflicted with a hangover, is longing to get back to the good life of Connemara when he sees a raggedy band of civilians storm the Post Office on Easter Monday. Very soon, he is possessed by “The Idea" and committed to the fight, and we follow him through it to the last suicide stand. O’Flaherty’s story brings to life, with unblinking honesty, all the disparate strains in the Irish spirit manifested in the foredoomed rebellion. His taut, humorous, tragic little novel is, within its modest compass, completely successful.