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Sinn Fein cancels parades

... cancels parades Sinn Fein announced last night that parades planned to commemorate the 75th Easter Rising were being cancelled because of the shootings. Four Easter parades in Lurgan, Portadown, Maghery, and Derrymacash were being called off as a mark of ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1991
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 50 | 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

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

Republican march gets go-ahead

... 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1991
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 241 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Kirkcaldy

... Theatre. (031-665 2240). Masterful drama by Sean O'Casey following the lives of a group of Dubliners at the time of the 1916 Easter Rising. Ideas of nationhood. pride and freedom are explored in this modern Insh classic. Mon-Sat 7.30 (untit September 28). £3-£5 ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1991
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 228 | Page: 47 | Tags: none

NEWS IN BRIEF

... when trouble broke out at a march in Edinburgh to commemorate the death of James - Connolly, the man who led the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. About 150 protesters, who tried to break up the crowd of 600-odd marchers on Saturday, were stopped by police ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1991
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 226 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Kirkcaldy

... Theatre, (031-665 2240). Masterful drama by Sean O’Casey following the lives of a group of Dubliners at the time of the 1916 Easter Rising. Ideas of nationhood, pride and freedom are explored in this modern Irish classic, given an excellent treatment by the ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1991
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 242 | Page: 50 | Tags: none

21 APRIL

... independence of Cuba. 1916: Roger Casement, British diplomat and Irish patriot, landed in Ireland by German submarine to aid Easter Rising. 1918: Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, scourge of First World War British fliers, was killed when ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1991
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 319 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Canal’s boats are all ship shaped By Tom Morton

... Erskine Childers, author of the classic The Riddle of the Sands, she was used to ferry German guns and ammunition to the Easter Rising in 1916. Everyone, however, wanted to see the biggest vessel on the inland stage, the 92ft Spirit of Merseyside. But she ...

Published: Tuesday 30 July 1991
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 343 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THEATRE

... Theatre (031-665 2240). Masterful drama by Sean O'Casey following the lives of a group of Dubliners at the time of the 1916 Easter Rising. Ideas of nationhood, pride and freedom are explored in this modern Irish classic, ends tonight 7.30, £3-£5 (concs £2.50-£4 ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1991
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 321 | Page: 51 | Tags: none

Spew out men of violence, mourners urged

... the murders. Several thousand Republicans attended rallies in the province to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Easter rising. At Carrickmore, Co Tyrone, the Sinn Fein president and West Belfast, MP Gerry Adams, said of the murders: “These are not ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1991
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 402 | Page: 1 | Tags: none