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

NEWS ANALYSIS 1

... men of violence did not set the agenda. They also appealed to the IRA to heed the words of Padraig Pearse after the 1916 Easter Rising when he called on his supporters to lay down their arms to avoid inflicting further suffering on their own people. A spokesman ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1994
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 188 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

of White

... particularly proud of a message received from Mike Flannery in New York, one of the few surviving insurgents of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. ...

Published: Tuesday 17 May 1994
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 193 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SAM VERRIL R.I.P

... He had reached a good age and had been ill for some time prior to his death As a young man he participated in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. Afterwards lie left for England where he resided for many years. He spent some thirty years as Sacristan at ...

Published: Thursday 28 April 1994
Newspaper: Wexford People
County: Wexford, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 171 | Page: 47 | Tags: none

PROVO VICTIM'S BROTHER VOWS TO STOP PARADE

... anniversary of the birth of James Con= the Edinburgh-born unionist and Irish Republican executed in 1918 for his part in the Easter rising. In 1991 trouble flared between marchers and police during the procession through the city's streets. Lawrence Dickson ...

Published: Sunday 25 September 1994
Newspaper: Sunday Life
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 177 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Exil blish Xiie pupiisnes his second book A FORMER New Stevenston man has written a book on the life of

... Australia, traces the life of Connolly who was bomn in 1868 and played a leading role in the rise of Irish nationalism until he was executed after the 1916 Easter Rising. The book examines his work as militant labour ot;nnisct. socialist leader, mili:rny commander ...

Published: Thursday 11 August 1994
Newspaper: Bellshill Speaker
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 181 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Time Cu SMILES

... journalist and broadcaster John Brennan, Grace Plunkett and Muriel MacDonagh who married 1916 Easter Rising leaders, Nellie Donnelly veteran of the Rising. Kate Wilson who was imprisoned on two occasions for her activities and Ada Gifford, active in ...

Published: Friday 13 May 1994
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 174 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

/By Denis Campbell

... Republican supporters of the James Connolly Society, named after the Edinburghborn socialist who helped lead the 1916 Easter Rising. All 17 are expected to appear in court tomorrow morning charged with breach of the peace. A massive polfie presence, costing ...

Published: Sunday 02 October 1994
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 176 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

History lesson

... the war finished in November 1918). Of the 10,000 Irish Volunteers who had stayed behind, only 1000 took any part in the Easter Rising and then only because it was thought their leaders were about to be arrested. A. Valentine, Abbeyhill Crescent, Edinburgh ...

Published: Wednesday 26 October 1994
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 223 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

'Day Closes', Coda P airlifts's' Card, Jack B Mats by Hilary Pyle, Irish

... report on what everybody else is doing from 1916 onwards (though the British censored all letters for a period after the Easter Rising. Did you know that?) Maud Gonne is at last a widow. Markiewicz' Citizen Army is comprised of drunken dock workers out ...

Published: Sunday 25 December 1994
Newspaper: Sunday Tribune
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 189 | Page: 44 | Tags: none

BEREAVEMENT

... ue branch of the Labour Party extend sincere sympathy to his wife and family. The late Kit was born on the day of the Easter Rising, Monday, 10th April, 1916. ...

Published: Friday 25 February 1994
Newspaper: Bray People
County: Wicklow, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 214 | Page: 18 | Tags: none