Showing posts with label Easter Uprising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter Uprising. Show all posts
April 9, 2016

More 1916 portraits by David Rooney

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Winifred Carney . ♣ Francis Sheehy-Skeffington . ♣ Michael Collins . ♣ Éamon De Valera . ♣

Chronology of the 1916 Rising and associated events

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From 1916 Portraits and Lives , edited by Lawrence William White and James Quinn   1907   NOVEMBER Thomas J. Clarke returns to Ireland from...
March 12, 2016

6 Women: 1916 Uprising portraits by David Rooney

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Kathleen Lynn (1874–1955), a clergyman's daughter from Co. Mayo, was a medical doctor devoted to services for the poor, a woman's ...
February 25, 2016

16 lives: portraits of the 1916 uprising martyrs by David Rooney

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Pádraig Pearse Thomas Clarke Thomas MacDonagh Joseph Plunkett Ned Daly Willie Pearse Michael O’Hanrahan John MacBride ...
September 27, 2015

Irish nationalists deported to Britain in 1916: Their trades

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Source: Sinn Féin Rebellion Handbook: Easter, 1916 . Compiled by the Weekly Irish Times , Dublin: 1917. Pages 69–86. “The following are t...
September 16, 2015

Dispatches from the General Post Office, Easter Friday, 1916

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Army of the Irish Republic (Dublin Command), Headquarters, April 28, 1916. To Soldiers, This is the fifth day of the establishment of ...
August 29, 2015

Flags and other images of 1916

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Cumann na mBan was formed in early 1914 as a women’s auxiliary of the Irish Volunteers, which became the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1919...
August 4, 2015

Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington’s Statement: Her Husband’s Last Hours

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The following statement was published by Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington respecting the arrest and shooting of her husband. I last saw my husband ...
July 31, 2015

Speech at the Grave of O’Donovan Rossa

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Pádraig Pearse, August 1, 1915 It has been thought right, before we turn away from this place in which we have laid the mortal remains of ...
July 26, 2015

James Joyce Encounters Before and With the 1916 Uprising in Ireland

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In Ulysses , the characters of Mr Deasy and the citizen are extreme representations of opposite obsolete political views. The uprising of Ea...
July 24, 2015

Why the Insurrection Happened

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From The Insurrection in Dublin , by James Stephens, 1916: It happened because the leader of the Irish Party misrepresented his people in ...
July 9, 2015

Constans de Markievics against the ‘treaty’

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Dáil Eireann Debate on the Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland , signed in London on the 6th December 1921, ratified by the Dáil on the...