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People look at 1916 and see their own reflection

... forgotten, writes Paul Bew THE commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising is turning into a subjective gabfest. Everyone today looking back at the Easter Rising sees themselves in the glass. The phenomenon is known as mirror-imaging. President ...

Published: Sunday 26 February 2006
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1257 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

He sat in the House of Lords, but always regarded himself as an Irishman. His family's dynastic origins go back ..

... Mereworth, but always regarded himself as an Irishman. He was at home on holidays at Castle Mac Garrett in Co Mayo when the Easter Rising broke out in 1916, and was delighted that he was unable to return to school at Eton because of the subsequent events. He ...

Published: Sunday 11 August 2002
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 327 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT

... spaces? (5) 4. Who led the US cavalry at the battle of Little Bighorn? (6) 5. Name the ship carrying German arms for the Easter Rising which was intercepted off the Kerry coast in April,l9l6? (3) 7. Which 2002 inquiry was commissioned by the FA I into its ...

Published: Sunday 26 September 2004
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 326 | Page: 43 | Tags: none

rock as Kilmainham shines

... Young Irelanders, Fenians and Land Leaguers, including Parnell and Davitt in 1883, to the leading insurgents of the 1916 Easter Rising when Padraig Pearse and James Connolly were executed in the prison yard. Eamon de Valera, who was three times Taoiseach ...

Published: Sunday 14 March 2004
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 338 | Page: 64 | Tags: none

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT COCKBURN'S QUIZWORD No 4

... 5. 1 always like to have the morning well-aired before - --- up, Beau Brummel. (1,3) 6. Where are the leaders of the Easter Rising buried? (6,4) 7. Where did Abraham Lincoln make a famous speech on November 19th,1863? (10) 11. Complete the movie title: ...

Published: Sunday 24 April 2005
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 45 | Tags: none

Observe the sons of An Taisce marching towards Leitrim

... the Easter Rising are the reason you drive that 06 Mercedes Missus and you'd better believe it. The men and women of 1916 suffered from a number problems of that there can be no doubt. Comparatively speaking only a handful took part in the Rising against ...

Published: Sunday 12 February 2006
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 833 | Page: 75 | Tags: none

John O'Keeffe

... According to the Budvar socialists, we apparently should be commemorating all sides on the upcoming 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising. It appears that conscripted Tommies from Colchester sailing up the Liffey firing shells from a very big boat at a few ...

Published: Sunday 26 February 2006
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 335 | Page: 75 | Tags: none

A new book claims that the Republican leader harboured necrophilic fantasies, writes Eoghan Williams

... Pearse, it is alleged, was obsessed with the corpse of Robert Emmet, a man beheaded 75 years before the leader of the Easter Rising was born. And it's further claimed a biography published to coincide with the bicentenary of the 1803 rebellion that Pearse ...

Published: Sunday 14 September 2003
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 785 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

flaws an

... that existed in Tralee during Holy Week and Easter Saturday and Sunday 1916. The author acknowledges that Eamon de Valera is generally described as the last commandant to surrender during the Easter Rising and the only one to survive the subsequent executions ...

Published: Sunday 26 August 2001
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 367 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

10 NEWS Report slams `shocking' executions of 26 Irishmen

... The publication of the report comes in advance of the Government's plans to commemorate the 90th anniversaries of the Easter Rising next month and of the Battle of the Somme in July. such as the absence of proof or due consideration of medical conditions ...

Published: Sunday 26 March 2006
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 394 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

faces ofheroism

... became a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. He took part in the Howth gun running in 1914, 0 • planned the 1916 Easter Rising, signed the Declaration of the Republic, was court marshalled, condemned to death and executed by firing squad in Kilmainham ...

Published: Sunday 01 May 2005
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 351 | Page: 32 | Tags: none