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ITALIAN ARMY

... Fordham (secretary Birmingham Water Department), Mr. J. H. Lear Caton (Birmingham Temperance Society). EASTER RISING COMMEMORATION The Easter rising of 1916 will be commemorated in Eire to-morrow. Mr. de Valera will visit the graves of the executed leaders ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 613 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PATRICK PEARSE A dream unfulfilled

... state documents, the üblication beaut y was burgeoning in the of this Report of the p Boundary blood and fire of the Easter Rising Commission coincides opportunely and its aftermath, 95 less romanwith renewed interest in the tic figures than Patrick ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1970
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 220 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

One More Irish ‘‘Split.*

... broke away and formed what were known as the Irish Volunteers, who were under Sinn hein leadership, and through whom the Easter rising of last year was organised. Of late very many of the remaining National Volunteers have shown a strong desire to come to ...

Published: Friday 20 July 1917
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 245 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

1916 -- and a terrible is born ..

... anew to the subject his is a book I would confidently recommend. Nothing is missed in the complex moves leading to the Easter Rising of 1916, and this stirring episode is recounted vividly and with the best map I know of Dublin during the battle, Mr. ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1977
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 259 | Page: 2 | 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: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

ROOTES BIRMI NGHA M MIDLAND MAGAZINE

... celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916. Keith Brae• will be reporting from Dublin on the events of the weekend and the attitude of modern Ireland to the tragic, heroic gesture of the Rising. Four hurt in chemical works explosion ...

Published: Thursday 07 April 1966
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 215 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

The Hostage

... to home to be as any amount of good fun. funny as it was. Frank Ellis, as the eteran The story of the Britt4l of the Easter Rising , turns in soldier held prisoner by the another highly professional IRA In a house which is $ performance of great merit ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1971
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 230 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

Michael Collins, the prime who turned peace-talker

... to stop and the talking beipin, lives on vividly where other legends, such as that of Patrick Pearse, the leader of the Easter Rising, and even of the still living De Valera, the intransigent republican, have faded. Collins's name is hung incongruously ...

Published: Tuesday 22 August 1972
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 229 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TO THE EDITOR Ireland 81r,—The official celebrations being held in Ireland in connection with the 50th ..

... with the 50th anniversary of the 1918 Easter Rising are receiving a fair amount of publicity in the British Press. But apparently no paper has reported that 11 young men are going on hunger strike for the whole of Easter Week as a public protest against these ...

Published: Tuesday 12 April 1966
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 251 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

The enigma of Eire's patriarch

... greatest Irishman of the century deeply Irish despite having had an Irish father and being born in New York a hero of the Easter Rising of 1916 and an implacable upholder of Irish republicanism and of Ireland's right to territorial unity. Language For them ...

Published: Monday 01 September 1975
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 234 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Irish questions

... to be known as the Irish Question. - On the surface this fat novel (479 pages) is about the Troubles that followed the Easter Rising of 1916; it also contains a series of footnotes to history and some illumination of the present troubles in Ulster. When ...

Published: Thursday 07 December 1978
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 255 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

republican obsession

... career had been that of an impeccable and brave patriot. culminating in his part In the Easter Rising of 1916. He was the only one of the 16 leaders of the Rising to escape execution, the British hesitating to shoot him because of his American origins ...

Published: Friday 13 October 1972
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 262 | Page: 20 | Tags: none