# Vivid Faces

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- Book: [Vivid Faces](https://www.bookquiver.com/r-f-foster/vivid-faces) ([Vivid Faces.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/r-f-foster/vivid-faces.md))
- Authors: [R F Foster](https://www.bookquiver.com/r-f-foster)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-424-9
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2015-05-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Vivid Faces surveys the lives and beliefs of the people who made the Irish Revolution: linked together by youth, radicalism, subversive activities, enthusiasm and love. Determined to reconstruct the world and defining themselves against their parents, they were in several senses a revolutionary generation. The Ireland that eventually emerged bore little relation to the brave new world they had conjured up in student societies, agit-prop theatre groups, vegetarian restaurants, feminist collectives, volunteer militias, Irish-language summer schools, and radical newspaper offices. Foster's book investigates that world, and the extraordinary people who occupied it.