... Congress of Christus Rex will have to accommodate their arrangements to the celebration, in 1966, of the Jubilee of the Easter Rising of 1916. It seems that the social congress will then be of greater significance than the military tattoo in commemorating ...

... sacrifice which the Rising involved, but all taking part knew that they were only preparing the road for others who would follow to final victory. The beauty of the Easter Rising is rarely understood by our young people to-day. I have never seen such ...

... constructive. And the first number of volunteers that took part in the essential step towards unity is to try to undo 1916 Easter Rising was about 800. Is it reason.- the mischief they have wrought, and to restore able to draw some inference? co-operation ...

... Round Roy of the Mansion House on ‘1916 and After, j the course of which he said : “ Though 21 yey have passed since the Easter Rising of 1916, it s strange that no one has yet produced for us, complete and detailed history of the inspiring events of that ...

... in Irish music culture, and just as on the Easter Rising of rearly a quarter of a century ago, the sun shone as if in very warm encouragement. A timely suggestion, a few weeks of preparation, and the thing was done. The open-air effort was naturally the ...

... removed to stronger air —and was sent to Delfast. He was convalescent in Belfast when the Easter Rising, 1916, broke out. He was asked to go to Dublin. But that Rising was his awakening to nationality. He couldn’t fight against Ireland. He refused to go. ...

... Sunday 23rd August, 1964. The Archbishop of Cashel, Most Rev. Thomas Morris, Chairman, said “when the jubilee of the Easter Rising comes, there will be time for something more than standardized cele- brations by the Army, or thg entmaigment of re-living ...

... preserved at the Benedictine Convent at Ypres. Nor is the tricolour of green, white, and orange a product of Sinn Fein or the Easter Rising. It was originally designed hy Thomas Francis Meagher. Mitchel records that when the Irish envoys returned from France ...

... through the eventful period which witnessed the rise and fall of Parnell, the birth of the Gaelic League and of the Irish Literary Movement, the launching of Sinn Fein, the First World War, the Easter Rising of 1916 and the fight against the Black-and-Tans ...

... by force on the majority of the people.’ It is beyond controversy that only an infinitesimal minority brought about the Easter rising —much against the wishes of the vast majority .’¢A of the Irish people, and of their elected representatives. It i& also ...

... He wag out again under the Cat and Mouse Act, then back in the hands of the occupying power and a few monthg before the Easter Rising wag carried off, like P. S. O’Hegarty and others, to obscure isolated villages in England, where supervision was easy and ...

... dissociate himself from the activities against the Dlack-and-Tans, as he dissociated himself on a former occasion from the Easter Week Rising? Or did he make his mean remark just to cateh a few ex-Unionist votes? We would like to know where he does really stand ...