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By VIVIAN BIRD

... War aims, selfdetermination for small nations, carried the seeds of his eventual Irish republicanism. He deplored the Easter Rising and the petty imbecility of the Germ an intrigue ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1977
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 177 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Ireland THE WEARING OF THE RED

... lieutenant. Thomas Henry Bur ke. Permanent Under-Secretary in the Irish Office, was to take her to the barricades of the Easter Rising forty years later. traged' and its background is the story of Ireland's fight for freedom written in blood. tears and terror ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1968
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 528 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Rising —Fifty years on

... Rising —Fifty years on WORKMEN put the finishing touches to the huge platform outside the General Post Office in O'Connell Street, Dublin, today, in readiness for the start of the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising. Scaffolders were completing the ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1966
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 193 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

KIDDING HIMSELF

... which included a sum of £237.000 for the recent celebrations of the mobilising of the Special Constabulary during the 1916 Easter Rising in Northern Ireland. STILL TRAINING He said they could not say that the I.R.A. had ceased to exit, but it was now operating ...

Published: Friday 11 November 1966
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 201 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Tonight

... behaviour of sptden• Tomorrow Ineurrection (II BC-2. 10 30 pm 1. the first of eight of a dramatised reconetruction of the Easter Rising. produced Irian Television, 'Further episodes nightly at approximately 10.30 on C-2. 'Monday The Weanlns Version (ITV, ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1966
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 168 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Crowd Scatters

... twenty shots in all were fired, and the incident - =while it lasted was exciting enough even for those who expected an Easter rising. A few minutes rater Dublin was calm again. ...

Published: Tuesday 06 April 1920
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 198 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FROM AN IRISH TOWER

... Brian, who fights for the Boers, organises volunteers, serves as a soldier of France, and opposed. but takes part in, the Easter Rising. The emotional crisis of the story is reached when the daughter of a British perr throws over her lover, a British Admiral ...

Published: Thursday 24 September 1925
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 220 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The Birmingham Post SATURDAY October 30 1999 Birmingham IMAGES OF JULY - DECEMBER 1975 Stateman’s death: Irish ..

... death: Irish nationalist leader Eamon de Valera died in August De Valera was sentenced to death after taking part in the Easter Rising in 1916 but the sentence was commuted and he was granted an amnesty in 1917 In 1918 he became president of the revolutionist ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1999
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 221 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

Fire over Hibernia

... of Ireland itself, inflamed by the strident nationalism of OPERA Daviot and Parnell and on target for the trauma of the Easter Rising. The struggle is observed by four narrators a device that can, and does, lead to flashbacks and duplication. Fortunately ...

Published: Thursday 09 March 1978
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 244 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Radio 3

... Third Programme 5.0 p.m. Words and Musi rc— S pa 4. 3.40 The Po:lution of pace. 8.13 Egar: record. 7.10 Episodes of an Easter Rising ( plays . 8.0 King's Lynn Festival Bach —part 1. 8.40 The Compleat Pilgrim: talk. 9.0 Festival Concert—part 2. 9.30 The ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1968
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 169 | Page: 40 | Tags: none

Taken away

... establishing the identities of the men. Another contact said it might have been in connection with the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising. There's going to be a big celebration in Birmingham in a few weeks, you know. he said. Executed The two men who were ...

Published: Monday 14 February 1966
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 215 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

Radio 3

... Third Programme $.O p.m. Words and Music—part 4. 5.40 The Pollution of Space. 0.13 Elgar: reoord. 7.10 Episodes of an Easter Rising 4 PIE/ I • A.O King's Lynn Festival: Bach —part 1. t 1.40 The Complest Pilgrim: talk. 9.0 Festival Concert—part 2. 9 ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1968
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 168 | Page: 2 | Tags: none