By Sarah Wilson

... James Connolly Society, named after an Edinburgh-born Republican who fought against British troops in Dublin during the Easter Rising in 1916, have been banned for the past two years because of fears of sectarian violence. Jim Slaven, who recently served ...

Published: Thursday 01 September 1994
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 69 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

COUNCIL COMMENT

... COUNCIL COMMENT Looking back on nine eventful years Charlie Haughey came for Easter Rising ceremonies in 199 L Other distinguished visitors were Mary Ro. binson, Padraig Flynn (who opened the Rafter Bridge), Kiwi prime minister James Bolger and Patrick ...

Published: Thursday 19 May 1994
Newspaper: Wexford People
County: Wexford, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 82 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

A tale from the riverbank, and the Easter Uprising

... ce than the Easter Rising. I was suitably impressed, until I read further. This Easter Rising, the letter assured me, was the 1966 Easter Rising. Now, unless I slept through it, this event strikes me as being ...

Published: Sunday 29 May 1994
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 790 | Page: 45 | Tags: none

Ceasefire hopes

... Ceasefire hopes Christian, Christ’s Easter Rising signified a new beginning, rising to a new way of life and a moral revolution, the Dean said it also meant making a new commitment to God — “a rising above the secularism and materialism of the present ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1994
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

LOOKING ,BACK

... James Connolly proposed the establishment of the Irish Labour Party. Connolly was of course executed for his part in the Easter Rising on May 9th, 1916. Jim Larkin Senior was to become famous for his part in the Great Strike of 1913 which started on August ...

Published: Friday 28 January 1994
Newspaper: Bray People
County: Wicklow, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 354 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

9 IN MEMORIAM

... of James Connolly, Edinburgh’s finest Socialist son, executed May 12, 1916, for his part in the Easter Rising in Dublin. “We are on our knees let us rise™. Proudly remembered by the James Connolly Society. MOYES. — Ellen. Loving you always,| Forgetting ...

Published: Thursday 19 May 1994
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Bruce let loose in

... Bruce let loose in der has been he film. •nke M sis mulling over 4 the port of an erican rising is led by wsman movie Am rse (Demi Moore) about the Easter Rising of 1916. caked from tearing An independent film company es to bandage . • . s, Of all the ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1994
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 134 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Thanks

... involved that the guns wouldn't be used against those with whom they disagreed. What anti- Christian self decep- Like the Easter Rising or the Battle of the Boyne, the gun-running has become romanticised and mythologised. Turn your TV on at nine or ten o’clock ...

Published: Thursday 28 April 1994
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

ROGER CASEMENT: Diaries to be published

... undermining the British war effort. He failed, and returned to Ireland in a German submarine in 1916 at the time of the Easter Rising. He was arrested as soon as he landed on a beach near Tralee, Co. Kerry. He was taken to London, where he was tried, and ...

Published: Wednesday 23 March 1994
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

4.15-GOLF AND ATHLETICS

... YOUR BRIGHTEST COLOURS Kenneth Griffith's controversial profile of Michael Collins. who first came to prominence in the Easter Rising of 1916 and died only six years later at the age of 32. (421936) 8.55-THE TURN OF THE SCREW David Hemmings introduces the ...

Published: Saturday 13 August 1994
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

ng the 1916 myth by Sharon Black

... history, we have nothing else to fall back on. Just three years ago for example, we 'celebrated' the 75th anniversary of the Easter Rising with hardly a whisper. Meanwhile the growing disatisfaction with the 'state' of the Republic is discussed publicly in terms ...

Published: Wednesday 04 May 1994
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 173 | Page: 23 | Tags: none