Nick Maxwell By Tony Canavan The fact that the historic streetscape and buildings of Dublin have changed so little over the last century means that the city itself is a kind of museum for the 1916 Rising. Key buildings, squares and streets remain in appearance today much as they did then, a fact that helped in filming … Read more
RTÉ1, January 2016 By John Gibney RTÉ is naturally investing a great deal of capital in the centenary of the Easter Rising across all of its platforms: TV, radio, archives, on-line and even the Century Ireland collaboration with Boston College, which has just launched a new guide to the Rising on its website.* But the … Read more
‘Imagining the past to remember the future’?: Easter 1916 in 2016 By Fearghal McGarry In ‘Easter, 1916’, Yeats identified the sacrifice of the insurgents with resurrection, just as Patrick Pearse had intended: ‘Life springs from death’. Many veterans also recalled the rebellion as transformative. ‘Then came like a thunderclap the 1916 Rising’, recorded Ernie O’Malley, … Read more
My first memory of 1916 is of being beaten for not being able to name the signatories of the Proclamation, a less effective method of inculcating patriotism than our elderly schoolteacher assumed. Growing up in Bray, Co. Wicklow, the meaning of 1916 was absorbed through other, not particularly ideological, perspectives. Playing with my cousin in … Read more
By Lar Joye The GPO was the headquarters of the Rising and from Wednesday 26 April was to become the main focus of attention for the British Army, as they realised its importance. The four artillery guns that the British Army had were focused first on bombarding Liberty Hall—which they mistakenly believed to be the … Read more