... Viking artefacts in Lerwick's Shetland Museum (Radio Scotland, 6.40-7 pm). The Bloody Protest. The legacy of the 1916 Easter Rising, in which militant Irish nationalists led by poets and writers proclaimed themselves the provisional government of an : ...

... take “ownership” of the Mitchell peace document. The Sinn Fein president, addressing a 300-strong crowd at the annual Easter Rising commemoration rally in the New Lodge, said he was convinced a united Ireland was still possible in his lifetime. To a cheering ...

... settlement aimed at ending the conflict in Northern Ireland. Mr Adams’ comments, at a rally to mark the anniversary of the Easter Rising of 1916, were designed to force Sinn Fein and the IRA together into the peace process. They followed a statement from the ...

... the nail of the stated aims of the Theatres And Nations season at the Tramway. In this passionate account of the 1916 Easter Rising, the implications of the old Republican saying “nil aon tintean na do thintéan fein” (there’s no hearth like you own) are ...

... the Brunton Theatre in fine style with a version of Sean O’Casey’s wonderfully detached tenement perspective of the 1916 Easter Rising The Plough And The Stars. It’s a solid and often very moving production which brings out O’Casey’s concern with the confused ...

... monicker was “Sean Connolly Bell”.. (Bell sar is a great mephew of James Connolly, executed by the British after the 1916 Easter Rising.) =~ Oh well, who can blame the kid. At six, which one would you have heard of? .“:/‘/ il .G’,:«»’’/ sß\ .f;r{f” ) ...

... Ireland and to commemorate Connolly, the Edinburgh-born socialist and Sinn. Fein member executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising. = Edinburgh’s Lord Provost Norman Irons was among the councillors who opposed their use of the City Chambers, He = -y ...

... Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn. Connolly, a socialist who was born in Edinburgh 126 years ago, died in Dublin in 1916 during the Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. ...

... the life of James Connolly, the Edinburgh-born socialist and Sinn Fein member who was executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising. An emergency motion is to be raised at tomorrow’s full council meeting demanding that the decision to hire the chambers ...

... take part in the memorial parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the death of the Edinburgh-born Republican who led the Easter Rising in Dublin. The march, which will assemble in the Grassmarket and end in a rally in the Meadows, is to be addressed by a ...

... to commemorate James Connolly, the Edinburgh-born socialist who was executed for his part as commander-in-chief of the Easter Rising. At the same meeting, Orange orders in Linlithgow, Polbeth and Whitburn were given permission to march. Seven Republican ...

... nbu n memory of t founder of the lrll:rgooltllu Republican Party who was shot by a British flrlnl squad after the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin against British rule, Lothian Regional Council has refused to agree to the request, Councillor Ron Muir, the ...