Volume 46, Number 5 · March 18, 1999
The Green Pimpernel
By Fiona MacCarthy
Citizen Lord: The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, Irish Revolutionary
by Stella Tillyard
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 337 pp., $30.00
Insurrectionary spirits looked back with some nostalgia to the fiery clarities of the French Revolution and to the Irish rebellion of 1798 with which it was so tragically intertwined. Lord Byron, for example, was enchanted by 'anecdotes of those times when I, alas! was an infant.' He added, 'If I had been a man, I would have made an English Lord Edward Fitzgerald.'
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