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Replace 'lrish' with 'African' and you have racism

... without Brian Robert Kennedy popping up to reiterate ad nauseam his antipathy to the proposed commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising. He is perfectly entitled to his views but we have read them so often it is turning into a boring rant. He rubbished William ...

Published: Sunday 26 February 2006
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1218 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

The rehabilitation of Patrick Pearse

... corridors of Kilmainham. But the soft-focus treatment belied a concrete achievement. For, on the Easter weekend which marks the 85th anniversary of the 1916 Rising, it is already clear that the programme has initiated a long overdue debate. It will also, I ...

Published: Sunday 15 April 2001
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1258 | Page: 52 | Tags: none

Soapbox Codswallop about 1916

... our poverty. Then, the North erupted, and out went the Easter parade. Flaunting the legends of the Rising might give legitimacy to the Provos. Wrapping the green flag Gene Kerrigan's favourite Rising hero is Prince Joachim Franz Humbert of Prussia around ...

Published: Sunday 16 April 2006
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1256 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

Unbroken links of history on these

... agenda. De Valera himself had no illusions about the judgement of posterity. In 1966, the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising and the mid-point of his tenancy of Arus an Uachtarain, he privately offered his considered opinion that in the fullness ...

Published: Sunday 30 July 2000
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1366 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Bergin to play Big Jim

... year in Dublin and Belfast. It will be a biopic on the life of the Irish socialist who was executed following the 1916 Easter Rising. It will follow his life from the founding of the first union in Ireland to the US where he set up a number of unions for ...

Published: Sunday 26 June 2005
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1423 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Sunday Independent Sunday, January 16, 2000 another life

... The conquest of the Pole ought to be enough for us to do, and there will in that be money enough . . . he wrote. the Easter Rising meant nothing at all. Nor did the First World War. They had been lost to human contact for two years. Survival was their ...

Published: Sunday 16 January 2000
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1313 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

The Abbeville land deal

... highest profile in the Dill, an IRA involvement in the bid. It appeared name for himself in Irish mining circles in the Easter Rising and went on to though he has been a very active city for a while that the Legacy bid was effecbefore becoming interested ...

Published: Sunday 26 August 2001
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1386 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

CLARE BOYLAN FAREWELL TO AN INTREPID STORYTELLER Courage no stranger to beloved writer

... the Atlantic. Home Rule (1992), based on her mother's upbringing and set in the Ireland of the First World War and the Easter Rising, focused on the fraught relationship between a model of gentilityturned-domestic-tyrant and her daughters. Her first attempt ...

Published: Sunday 21 May 2006
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1265 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

... exception to Brendan O'Connor's remarks (Sunday Independent, April 15, `God Save the Queen without him, there'd have been no Easter Rising'). His piece was dripping with bitchery and bitterness, and was totally irrelevant to those involved. The world that Pearse ...

Published: Sunday 22 April 2001
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1479 | Page: 56 | Tags: none

I WAS IN THE GPO IN 1916: The historic photograph which hangs In the GPO today shows the members of

... pictured in Croke Park on the 20th anniversary of the 1916 rising. Photograph finally dears lup Easter ,1916 mystery Historic snap identifies the people who ,actually defended GPO during Rising ILARA BRADLEY Within An Post, even through the significance ...

Published: Sunday 27 March 2005
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1518 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

+ business & appointments Sunday Independent April 23, 2000 +full television guide •going out • cinema • entek ..

... April 23, 2000 +full television guide •going out • cinema • entek • fashior- W Legends in love 4 . He was a hero of the Easter Rising. She was an English beauty and a fervent convert to the cause of Irish Nationalism. Indeed, John Mcßride and Maud Gonne ...

Published: Sunday 23 April 2000
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1581 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

The David Norris double a

... 40pm-11.10pm) to debate even more burning questions about the state of the nation. Not battling the pros and cons of the Easter Rising this time, mind you; instead, he was parrying the ins and outs of Podge and Rodge's smutty remarks with plenty of his own ...

Published: Sunday 12 February 2006
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1550 | Page: 33 | Tags: none