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ENGLAND’S WAR-TIME EASTER HOLIDAY SCENES

... during the holiday. The prison authorities are confident that the attempt to stage demonstration to coincide with the Easter Rising of 1916 has been effectively quelled. Major J. C. PannaU, the Governor, has completed report following minute investigation ...

Published: Monday 25 March 1940
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 294 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SATURDAY

... COLOURS Kenneth Griffith's profile of IRA leader and Irish hero Michael Collins, who first came to prominence during the Easter Rising of 1916 and died only six years later at the age of 32. Made in 1973, and banned for more than 20 years because it was ...

Published: Friday 12 August 1994
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 285 | Page: 56 | Tags: none

The death suitcase

... botched the planting 01 the bomb. IRA always seems romantic, from its stirring battle against the whole British Army in the Easter rising of 1916 right up to the trouble in Ulster at this very moment, when it makes defiant statements threatening to send volunteers ...

Published: Tuesday 14 October 1969
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 326 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Goliath of Wales

... Colthurst. a dramadocumentary about the murder of an Irish Nationalist pacifist by a British officer during the Easter rising in Dublin in 1916 The Easter rebellion began in Dublin on Sunday, April 24, 1916. The following evening, Francis Sheehy Skeffington ...

Published: Monday 27 April 1981
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 336 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

When rights of man are personal problem

... He is a negro. The India Man One of the bloodiest episodes in the modern history of the British Isles was the Dublin Easter Rising in 1916. It came at a time hen British forces were tied up with the Great War on the continent. The most militant of Irish ...

Published: Friday 26 April 1968
Newspaper: Buckinghamshire Examiner
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 343 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Irish tale of love and life

... life and love in Kirrary, an impoverished village clinging to the barren Atlantic Coast. The year is 1916, just after the Easter Rising against the British and in the middle of the first world war. Charles Shaughnessy (Robert Mitchum), a rural schoolmaster ...

Published: Friday 06 October 1972
Newspaper: Faversham News
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 390 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CLEARANCE PRICE UNUSUAL STAMPS

... selection was a cover specially cancelled and censored when the post office in Dublin was captured by the rebels during the Easter rising of 1916. At times post offices have accepted stews cut in half to make up odd amounts when the proper value has not been ...

Published: Friday 26 October 1962
Newspaper: Herne Bay Press
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 358 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Academy Pictures

... British after the Easter rising in 1916. The gift was made after the luncheon given by Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain to Mr. do Valera and his colleagues. It was on April 30, 1916, that Mr. Valera had to make the surrender at the end of the rising. The field glasses ...

Published: Tuesday 26 April 1938
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 340 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

IRELAND WAS CHOICE OF PRESIDENT FOR STAMP DISPLAY

... mark the 50th anniversary ut the Easter Week Rising. seven of which have portraits of the Irish Republicans who signed the Proclametion. read by tiv:ir leader Padraic Pearce front the steps of the Dublin (.P.O, on Easter Monday. 1018. Mr. Squire very hearths' ...

Published: Friday 15 March 1968
Newspaper: Herne Bay Press
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 351 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

1415

... to The Times during World War One, illustrated by archive footage, cartoons and maps. Among the topics covered is the Easter Rising in Ireland. (T) (bw) (S) THE STREET New series. A trouble-shooting team comprising a doctor, barrister and architect help ...

Published: Thursday 25 July 1996
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 315 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HOME IN GLEN

... me get dressed first, for I cannot be shot like this ! ” Mr. Lynch's tales the troubles and of the days following the Easter rising of 1916 —when he was himself serving in France are many indeed. Some of the best are strictly for narrower circle. All ...

Back to 1921

... with during and after World War I when Southern Ireland was struggling for complete independence from Britain. The famous Easter rising of 1916 embarrassed a Britain fighting for its life•in the trenches of the Somme, and after that conflict was over English ...

Published: Wednesday 17 June 1959
Newspaper: Worthing Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 358 | Page: 2 | Tags: none