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A Proclamation for all (Free article)
13 April 2006
While Irish Republicans commemorate the 1916 Rising this weekend I would encourage unionists to study the Proclamation. They will see that it is not the property of any one section of Irish people or any single political party. It is a vision of what the signatories believed an Ireland sovereign and free could offer all of its people - Catholic,…
Féile na nGael sa Chabhán (Free article)
13 April 2006
Ag an deireadh seachtaine seo caite, bhí GaelFest ar siúl i mBaile an Chabháin agus tháinig idir Gaeil óga agus Gaeil shinne, chomh maith le daoine as tíortha eile, ann chun craic agus ceol a bheith acu. Ba é grúpa óg forbartha Gaeilge, ar Glór Bhréifne an t-ainm orthu, a d'eagraigh an ócáid chultúrtha agus a fuair tacaíocht ó Raidió na…
1916 - 2006: The events of Easter Week (Free article)
13 April 2006
Ninety years ago in Dublin, seven visionaries led a small army of Irish men and women in a revolutionray enterprise. Their vision was that Ireland might be free. Their dream an age-old one, was at first half-formed and rough shaped but became clearly-defined down through the years. The United Irishmen gave it substance, Wolfe Tone delineated it,…
Féile calls for West Belfast backing (Free article)
13 April 2006
Community groups in West Belfast are being urged to make this year's Féile an Phobail a success despite recent job losses, due to under funding by the Department of Social Development (DSD).
1916 - 2006: Women and the Easter Rising (Free article)
13 April 2006
The 1916 Rising is of huge significance for Irish women. The Proclamation of the Republic read out on Easter Monday 1916 is remarkable for its radicalism, inclusiveness and endorsement of equality for women. The participation of women was an integral part of what made the Rising truly revolutionary.
1916 - 2006: The labour movement, the Irish Citizen Army and the Rising (Free article)
13 April 2006
From the beginning of the 1913 Lockout, as the Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITWGU) led by James Larkin and James Connolly faced the Dublin Employer's Federation under William Martin Murphy, strikers were the target of indiscriminate baton attacks at the hands of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and the RIC. Small, impoverished tenement…
In Brief (Free article)
13 April 2006
Sectarian use of CS gasby PSNI and Council faces investigation
1916 - 2006: An Éirí Amach agus ath-Ghaelú na hÉireann (Free article)
13 April 2006
"Gaeil iad fhéin ní Gaill ná Spáinnigh" a deir amhrán an Phiarsaigh An Dord Féinne. Gaeil a ghlac páirt in Éirí Amach na Cásca agus bhí an Éirí Amach mar thoradh ar 'ath-Ghaelú' na hÉireann a bhí ar siúl ó bhunú Chonradh na Gaeilge in 1893 nó níos faide siar le bunú Chumann Lúthchleas Gael in 1884.
1916 - 2006: Poets and writers prominent in Rising's leadership (Free article)
13 April 2006
Perhaps the best known of all the writers, artists and poets associated in people's minds with the Easter Rising is William Butler Yeats. Hardly a discussion on 1916 would be complete without someone quoting from his poem that all is "changed, changed utterly". While Yeats was commenting from the sidelines, it is nonetheless the case that amongst…
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