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1916 Easter Rising Commemorations 2010

ARMAGH

Saturday 3 April
1pm Portadown, Speaker: Cathal Boylan

Sunday 4 April
10.30am Crossmaglen, Speaker: Sean Murray
11.30am Derrymacash, Wreath Laying Ceremony
2pm Ballymacnab, Speaker: Paul Butler
2.30pm Lurgan, Speaker: Declan Kearney
4.30pm Cullyhanna, Speaker: Conor Murphy

Monday 5 April
2.30pm Armagh City, Speaker: Conor Murphy
4pm Camlough, Speaker: Sean Hughes

BELFAST

Saturday 3 April
2pm Whitewell, Speaker Gerry Kelly

Sunday 4 April
10.30am Memorial Garden, Market Area, Wreath Laying Ceremony.
1pm Beechmont Avenue, Main Commemoration, Speaker: Gerry Adams

Monday 5 April
1pm New Lodge, Speaker: Gerry Kelly

Tuesday 6 April
1pm Ardoyne, Speaker: Gerry Kelly
2pm Ballymurphy

CAVAN

Monday 5 April
1.30pm Ballinagh, Speaker: Sean Lynch

CARLOW/KILKENNY

Saturday 3 April
12 noon Mooncoin, Speaker: Kathleen Funchion

CLARE

Sunday 4 April
12.30pm Drumcliffe cemetary, Wreath Laying Ceremony
2.30pm Ennis, Wreath Laying Ceremony

CAVAN

Monday 5 April
1.30pm Ballinagh, Speaker Catherine Reilly

CORK

Saturday 3 April
8pm Bantry, Wreath Laying Ceremony

Sunday 4 April
11am Youghal
11am Macroom Wreath Laying Ceremony
11am Clonakilty, Tadhg an Astna 1798 Monument, Speaker Donnchadha Ó Seaghdha
12.30pm Bandon, Speaker: Mary Lou McDonald
12.30pm Clonakilty, Wreath Laying Ceremony
2pm Cork City, Speaker Mary Lou McDonald

DERRY & ANTRIM

Saturday 3 April
Wreath Laying Ceremonies:
4pm Glens; 6pm Moneyglass; 6.30pm Glenravel; 6.30pm Cargin

Sunday 4 April
12 noon Dungiven, Speaker: Carál Ní Chuilín
2.30pm Westland Street, Derry City, Speaker: Martina Anderson
2.30pm The Loup, Speaker: Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
Wreath Laying Ceremonies:
10am Rasharkin; 10.30am Glen, Maghera; 10.45am Coolcalm; 10.45am Newbridge; 11am Creggan, Central Drive;  11am Bogside, Lecky Road;11am Shantallow, Racecourse Road; 1pm Waterside, Rose Court; 11.30am Dunloy; 11.40am Lavey; 11.45am Bellaghy; 12.15pm Loughgiel; 12.30pm Kilrea

Monday 5 April
2.30pm Swatragh, Speaker: Martin McGuinness

DONEGAL

Sunday 4 April
10am Drumkeen, Wreath Laying Ceremony
11.30am Glencolmcille, Wreath Laying Ceremony
12 noon Drumoghill
12 noon Castlefinn, Speaker: Cora Harvey
12.15pm Gweedore, Speaker: Pearse Doherty
12.45pm Buncrana, Speaker: Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
1pm Letterkenny, Speakers: Mick Quinn and Gerry MacMonagle
2.30pm Drumboe, Main Commemoration, Speaker: Pearse Doherty

Monday 5 April
12.30pm Carrigart, Speaker: Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
3pm Pettigo, Speaker: Pearse Doherty
3pm Fanad, Speaker: Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

DOWN

Sunday 4 April
12 noon Patrick Street, Newry, Speaker: Conor Murphy
1.15pm St Patricks Avenue, Downpatrick, Speaker: Caitríona Ruane
3.15pm Down Road Car Park, Newcastle, Wreath Laying Ceremony
4pm Lower Square, Castlewellan, Speaker: Caitríona Ruane

DUBLIN

Friday 2 April
11.30am Arbour Hill, Speaker: Ruadhan MacAodháin

Saturday 3 April
11am Ballyfermot, Speaker: Aengus Ó Snodaigh
2.30pm Crumlin, Speaker: Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Sunday 4 April
11.30am Glasnevin Cemetery, Wreath Laying Ceremony
2.30pm Main Commemoration: Garden of Remembrance, Speaker: Gerry Kelly

Monday 5 April
2pm Baker's Corner, Dún Loaghaire

Saturday 10 April
12.00 noon, Elizabeth O' Farrell Park,  South East Inner City

FERMANAGH

Sunday 4 April
2.30pm Derrylinn, Speaker: Michelle Gildernew

GALWAY

Sunday 4 April
1pm Ballinasloe, Speaker: Bairbre de Brún
3pm Erye Square, City Speaker: Bairbre de Brún

Monday 5 April
12 noon Ros Muc, Conamara, Speaker: Seánna Walsh
3pm Cliften, Conamara, Speaker: Seánna Walsh    
5pm Tullycross, Speaker: Seánna Walsh

KERRY

Sunday 4 April
3pm Tralee, Main Commemoration, Speaker: Martin Ferris

 

LAOIS

Sunday 4 April
2pm Portlaoise, Speaker: Aengus Ó Snodaigh

LEITRIM

Sunday 4 April
3pm Aughnasheelin, Ballinnamore, Speaker: Raymond McCartney

LIMERICK

Saturday 3 April
3pm Athea Village, Speaker: Martin Ferris

Sunday 4 April
12pm Limerick City, Speaker: Maurice Quinlivian

LONGFORD

Sunday 4 April
2.30pm Longford Town, Speaker: Paul Hogan

LOUTH

Saturday 3 April
12 noon Quay Street, Dundalk, Wreath Laying Ceremony
2pm Knockbridge, Wreath Laying Ceremony

Sunday 4 April
12 noon St Peter’s Church, Drogheda, Speaker: John O’Dowd
2.30pm Market Square, Dundalk, Speaker: John O’Dowd

MAYO

Sunday 4 April
10.30am Achill, Speaker: Mitchel Mc Laughlin
3pm Westport, Speaker: Mitchel Mc Laughlin

MEATH

Thursday 1 April
1pm Navan Town Hall, Civic Reception

Friday 2 April
6pm Longwood, Wreath Laying Ceremony

Saturday 3 April
1pm Oldcastle, Speaker Michael Gallagher
4pm Navan, Main Commemoration, Speaker: Arthur Morgan

Sunday 4 April
12 noon Ardbraccen, Wreath Laying Ceremony
12 noon Slane, Wreath Laying Ceremony

Monday 5 April
12 noon Drumree and Ashbourne, Wreath Laying Ceremony

MONAGHAN

Saturday 3 April
6pm Inniskeen, Wreath Laying Ceremony
3.30pm Monaghan Town, Speaker: Francie Molloy


Monday 5 April
12pm Scotshouse, Wreath Laying Ceremony
2pm Clones, Speaker: Claire McGill

OFFALY

Monday 5 April
2.30pm Edenderry, Speaker: Brendan Killeavey

ROSCOMMON

Monday 5 April
3pm Ballintubber, Speaker: Martin Kenny

SLIGO

Sunday 4 April
3pm Sligo Town, Speaker: Seán Mac Brádaigh

TIPPERARY

Sunday 4 April
12 noon, Thurles, Speaker: David Doran
3pm St.Johnstown, Fethard, Speaker: Michael Moroney
3pm Nenagh, Maurice Quinlivan

TYRONE

Saturday 3 April
3pm Coalisland, Speaker: Michelle O’Neill

Sunday 4 April
3pm Carrickmore, Speaker: Martin McGuinness    
11.15am Dunamore, Speaker: Martin McGuinness    
5.30pm Loughmacrory, Speaker: Seán Hughes

Monday 5 April
2pm Ardboe, Speaker: Barry McElduff
For other Tyrone commemorations: www.tyronecommemorations.com

WATERFORD

Saturday 3 April
3pm Waterford City, Speaker: David Cullinane    

Sunday 4 April
11.30am Portlaw, Speaker: Declan Clune
3pm Stradbally

WESTMEATH

Monday 5 April
2.30pm Fore, Speaker, Paul Hogan

WEXFORD

Saturday 3 April
3pm Arklow Town
6pm Ballymore, Wreath Laying Ceremony

Sunday 4 April
1pm Wexford Town

Monday 5 April
12 noon Murrintown, Speaker: Mary Lou McDonald
2.30pm Enniscorthy, Speaker: Mary Lou McDonald

 

 

POBLACHT NA hÉIREANN

THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT

OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC

TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND

IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.
Having organised and trained her manhood through her secret revolutionary organisation, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and through her open military organisations, the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army, having patiently perfected her discipline, having resolutely waited for the right moment to reveal itself, she now seizes that moment, and supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe, but relying in the first on her own strength, she strikes in full confidence of victory.
We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible. The long usurpation of that right by a foreign people and government has not extinguished the right, nor can it ever be extinguished except by the destruction of the Irish people. In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty; six times during the past three hundred years they have asserted it in arms. Standing on that fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in the face of the world, we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades in arms to the cause of its freedom, of its welfare, and of its exaltation among the nations.
The Irish Republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of every Irishman and Irishwoman. The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all of the children of the nation equally, and oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien Government, which have divided a minority from the majority in the past.
Until our arms have brought the opportune moment for the establishment of a permanent National Government, representative of the whole people of Ireland and elected by the suffrages of all her men and women, the Provisional Government, hereby constituted, will administer the civil and military affairs of the Republic in trust for the people.
We place the cause of the Irish Republic under the protection of the Most High God, Whose blessing we invoke upon our arms, and we pray that no one who serves that cause will dishonour it by cowardice, inhumanity, or rapine. In this supreme hour the Irish nation must, by its valour and discipline, and by the readiness of its children to sacrifice themselves for the common good, prove itself worthy of the august destiny to which it is called.
Signed on behalf of the Provisional Government:

THOMAS J. CLARKE, SEAN Mac DIARMADA
P. H. PEARSE, THOMAS MacDONAGH
 EAMONN CEANNT,  JAMES CONNOLLY, JOSEPH PLUNKETT
 

POBLACHT NA hÉIREANN

RIALTAS SEALADACH

PHOBLACHT NA hÉIREANN

DO MHUINTIR NA hÉIREANN

A FHEARA AGUS A MHNÁ NA hÉIREANN : In ainm Dé agus in ainm na nglún a chuaigh romhainn agus óna bhfuair sí seanoideas na náisiúntachta, tá Éire, trínne, ag gairm a clainne faoina bratach agus ag bualadh buille ar son a saoirse.
Tar éis di a fir a eagrú agus a oiliúint ina heagraíocht rúnda réabhlóideach, Bráithreachas Phoblacht na hÉireann, agus ina heagraíochtaí míleata poiblí, Óglaigh na hÉireann agus Arm Cathartha na hÉireann, agus tar éis di a riailbhéas a thabhairt go foighneach chun foirfeachta agus feitheamh go buanseasmhach leis an bhfaill chun gnímh,tá sí ag glacadh na faille sin anois, agus, le cabhair óna clainn ar deoraíocht i Meiriceá agus ó chomh-ghuaillithe calma san Eoraip, ach, thar gach ní, le muinín as a neart dílis féin, tá sí ag bualadh buille i ndóchas iomlán go mbéarfaidh sí bua.
Dearbhaímid gur ceart ceannasach dochlóite ceart mhuintir na hÉireann chun seilbh na hÉireann, agus chun dála na hÉireann a stiúradh gan chosc gan cheataí. Níor cuireadh an ceart sin ar ceal leis an bhforghabháil a rinne pobal eachtrannach agus a rialtas air le cian d’aimsir ná ní féidir go brách a chur ar ceal ach trí dhíothú mhuintir na hÉireann. Níl aon ghlúin dá dtáinig nár dhearbhaigh pobal na hÉireann a gceart chun saoirse agus ceannas a náisiúin; sé huaire le trí chéad bliain anuas dhearbhaíodar faoi airm é. Ag seasamh dúinn ar an gceart bunaidh sin agus á dhearbhú arís faoi airm os comhair an tsaoil, fógraímid leis seo Poblacht na hÉireann ina Stát Ceannasach Neamhspleách agus cuirimid ár n-anam féin agus anam ár gcomrádaithe comhraic i ngeall lena saoirse agus lena leas, agus lena móradh i measc na náisiún.
Dlíonn Poblacht na hÉireann, agus éilíonn sí leis seo, géillsine ó mhuintir uile na hÉireann, idir fhir agus mhná. Ráthaíonn an phoblacht saoirse creidimh agus saoirse shibhialta, comhchearta agus comhdheiseanna, dá saoránaigh uile, agus dearbhaíonn sí gurb é a rún séan agus sonas a lorg don náisiún uile agus do gach roinn di, le comhchúram do chlainn uile an náisiúin, agus le neamhairt ar an easaontas a cothaíodh d’aontoisc eatarthu ag rialtas eachtrannach agus lér deighleadh mionlucht ón tromlach san am atá imithe.
Go dtí go dtabharfaidh feidhm ár n-arm an t-ionú dúinn Buan-Rialtas Náisiúnta a bhunú ó theachtaí do phobal uile na hÉireann arna dtoghadh le vótaí a cuid fear agus ban, déanfaidh an Rialtas Sealadach, a bhunaítear leis seo, cúrsaí sibhialta agus míleata na Poblachta a riaradh thar ceann an phobail.
Cuirimid cúis Phoblacht na hÉireann faoi choimirce Dhia Mór na nUile-chumhacht agus impímid A bheannacht ar ár n-airm; iarraimid gan aon duine a bheas ag fónamh sa chúis sin do tharraingt easonóra uirthi le mílaochas, le mídhaonnacht ná le slad. San uair oirbheartach seo is é dualgas náisiún na hÉireann a chruthú, lena misneach agus lena dea-iompar agus le toil a clainne á dtoirbhirt féin ar son na maitheasa poiblí, go dtuilleann sí an réim ró-uasal is dán di.
Arna shíniú thar ceann an Rialtais Shealadaigh,
TOMÁS Ó CLÉIRIGH, SEÁN Mac DIARMADA
TOMÁS Mac DONNCHADHA, PÁDRAIC Mac PIARAIS
ÉAMONN CEANNT, SÉAMUS Ó CONGHAILE, IÓSEPH Ó PLUINGCÉAD

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