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Province marks Easter Rising

... Province marks Easter Rising THE 75th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising will be celebrated with an open-air ceili at Murlough, in Ballycastle, next Saturday. Murlough Bay has strong connections with Roger Casement, the leader of the ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1991
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Ex-soldier poses question

... members of the Irish Volunteers to join the British Army. I also believe that Redmond had nothing to do with fostering the Easter Rising. In fact this rebellion was scorned by the vast majority of the Dubliners who jeered and abused the IRA men who were involved ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1991
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

100NOTOUT! By DES BUN

... on the throne and Dublin was the second city of the British Empire. She remembers the outbreak of the Great War, the Easter Rising and the Nadi And Tan pogroms. When the present Queen of England was crowned, this Elizabeth was at pension. age. She'd ...

Published: Sunday 28 July 1991
Newspaper: Sunday World (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 155 | Page: 83 | Tags: none

TWO “TALK BACK” SPECIALS

... holiday hotspots. Irish history is studded with trials and tribulations — the Battle of the Boyne, the Potato Famine, the Easter Rising and the Anglo Irish Agreement. But they all pale into insignificance compared with the latest scourge of Northern Ireland ...

Published: Tuesday 09 July 1991
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 167 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

Regional Reviews: The Plough And The Stars

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 11 July 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 298 | Page: 15 | Tags: performance review 

The “Siege” Is Nearly Over

... Tuesday to Saturday, 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. For those not impressed by Sieges, there is currently an exhibition on the 1916 Easter Rising showing at the O’Doherty Tower until the end of August. Opening times are the same as the Siege exhibition. ...

Published: Tuesday 23 July 1991
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Popular patient Agnes is 98! A very special party took place in Drogheda's Cottage Hospital at the weekend when ..

... entertained with her yarns. One story she is always asked to tell is of her trip to Dublin io 1916 which coincided with the Easter Rising! After narrowly escaping danger and having to spend the night in Dublin she got a lift as far a Balbriggan and then rode ...

Published: Friday 19 July 1991
Newspaper: Drogheda Independent
County: Louth, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 295 | Page: 1 | 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

Old Soldiers recall the Somme Issue of magazine

... text of a recent speech by David Trimble MP, former chairman of the Society, on the Easter Rising of 1916. In the article he traces the roots of the 1916 Rising to the rise of an ultramontane philosophy within the Roman Catholic hierarchy. He also says that ...

Published: Thursday 25 July 1991
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 443 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

This old postcard of Carrick Castle and harbour was recently discovered by a reader. It was posted to a Mrs ..

... text of a recent speech bz' David Trimble MP, former chairman of the Society, on the Easter Rising of 1916. In the article he traces the roots of the 1916 Rising to the rise of an ultramontane philosophy within the Roman Catholic hierarchy. He also says that ...

This old postcard of Carrick Castle and harbour was recently discovered by a reader. It was posted to a Mrs ..

... text of a recent speech by David Trimble MP, former chairman of the Society, on the Easter Rising of 1916. In the article he traces the roots of the 1916 Rising to the rise of an ultramontane philosophy within the Roman Catholic hierarchy. He also says that ...

]@lz-ll Curtain Rises On Season Of Drama

... with The Plough and The Stars, Sean O’Casey’s graphic depiction of life in Dublin during the period prior to the 1916 Easter Rising. Another buy-in is featured from October 29 to November 2 when Winged Horse present a new comedy by Scots playwright lan ...

Published: Friday 12 July 1991
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 558 | Page: 2 | Tags: none