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Straw 1n PHILIP MURPHY

... THE shadow home secretary Jack Straw was accused of naivety and bad timing after reaffirming, on the anniversary of the Easter Rising, Labour plans to lift mainland exclusion orders against Northern Ireland terrorist suspects. Mr Straw told the Observer ...

Published: Monday 08 April 1996
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 107 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Choice On the Ropes. Derek Lewis, former directorgeneral of the gives a blow-by- ) blow account of the bust-up with

... 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 : ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1996
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 109 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

Optimism grows atter Orange march turns back

... 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 14 April 1998
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 403 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THEATRE

... THEATRE O Brunton Theatre, Musseiburgh. The Plough and the Stars. A touching and witty account of the Easter Rising of 1916 by late nineteenth-century Irish playwright Sean O’Casey. The plays looks at the contrast between the ideal of fighting for a worthy ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1991
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 145 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

JOHN PENMAN

... 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 ...

Published: Monday 13 April 1998
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Pride and passion played pokerfaced

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 20 September 1991
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

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... 0000O0OCGOEOGIOGIOEONOSINOPO (J Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh. The Plough and the Stars. A touching and witty account of the Easter Rising of 1916 by late nineteenth-century Irish playwright Sean O'Casey. The play looks at the contrast between the ideal of fighting ...

Published: Tuesday 17 September 1991
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 160 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

MORRICE

... company that Murphy’s uninspiring script becomes an intense and attention-holding piece of theatre. The subject is the Easter Rising of 1916, seen with the gently cynical eyes of a young Mother Ireland, who wanders in and out of the action, pointing out ...

Published: Sunday 22 September 1991
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 187 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

Vien quizzed over killings

... who shot them behind the counter in front of customers. B Sinn Fein announced that ceremonies planned to commemorate the Easter Rising were being called off as a mark of respect for the three families. ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1991
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

S~ Loving embrace: Nora (Rebecca Tremain) and Jack (Liam Brennan) O Casey showcase EFFREY DAUNTON kicks off his ..

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1991
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 176 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

History lesson

... Orangemen joined the British Army and James Connolly and his republican friends began preparing for the stab-in-the-back Easter Rising. A. Millar, Inverleith, Edinburgh. ...

Published: Thursday 28 November 1991
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 193 | Page: 14 | Tags: none