1862 Six Days To Shake an Empire, by Charles Duff (read 25 Aug 1984) I have long wanted to read a good account of the Easter Rising which began in Dublin on Easter Monday, Apr 24, 1916, and ended the following Saturday. This is an account of that rebellion and its suppression and of the final struggle for self-government--with an Epilogue on the dissolution of the British Empire and the British Commonwealth of Nations. It is a 1966 book written with a sheer pro-Irish bias. It is by no means the definitive history but it tells the story quite well and was worth reading. ( )