... is one of the heroes of the Irish republican movement - the man who organised armed opposition to the British after the Easter Rising of 1916. SCREEN VERDICT By SIMON ROSE camp. The rebels' leader, and Collins's early mentor, is Eamon de Valera (Alan Rickman) ...

... Heap in the sec ond play, The Dreaming of the Bones, as two spirit lovers juxtaposed against the violent reality of the Easter Rising of 1916. Mullens is a man on the lam, and a Greek chorus echoes the clash of moods, with effective musical scor ing by ...

... Kenneth Griffith's controversial profile of IRA leader and Irish hero Michael Collins, who first came to prominence in the Easter Rising of 1916 and died only six years later at the age of 32. 5.55 The Turn of the Screw David Hemmings Introduces Scottish Opera's ...

... horrors of colonial exploitation in the Congo and the Amazon. However, when he was arrested for allegedly taking part in the Easter Rising, he became the victim of a wicked plot. He said: He was exposed by the Government after leaked stories about his homosexual ...

... national identity crisis that emerged during this country's half-hearted commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising found its way onto the stage of the country's national theatre in a new production of Sean O'Casey's classic The Plough ...

... all of a piece and a parcel. And so in that moment orth Mayo became even more completely shackled to my heart. by the Easter Rising, another midcUe class, Catholic, narrow, restrictive, took its place. Is all that i happening now in Ireland but tlle forming ...

... Those of us too young to remember the Easter Rising were forced to see the diabolical reality of the 1916 massacre in Richmond Theatre's production of The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey. The cur - min rises on the humdrum lives of a group of ordinary ...

... St Stephen's Green, Dublin. The district has provided the backdrop for numerous s cenes of Irish history, including the Easter Rising of 1916. SEBASTIAN BARR~ Irish playwright and novelist) tries to anatomise his love for Ireland and its pattern N the autumn ...

... abundance to Richmond Theatre as The Plough And The Stars opened for a six day run on Monday. A play set in Dublin during dr!. Easter Rising of 1916 may not have been everyone's idea of good entertainment, but a talented cast showed off Sean O'Casey's masterpiece ...

... tyrant. Playing it this way gave a political edge to Stephen Brennan's Lucky, changing from stooped serfdom to a sort of Easter Rising to deliver a frenzied tirade that won him enthusiastic acclaim on the Barbican first night. Beckett never explains the ...

... overhead girders but causing no major damage History’ repeated itself when in April 1996 on the 8ftth anniversary the Dublin Easter Rising two IRA oombs were found under the bridge The detonators went off but failed to ignite the 301bs of Semtex explosive - ...

... overhead girders but causing no major damage History repeated itself when in April 1996 on the 80th anniversary of the Dublin Easter Rising two IRA oombs were found under the bridge The detonators went but failed to ignite the 301bs of Semtex explosive and c ...