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Pearse re-enactment at Glasnevin
2013 is the centenary of the Lockout, but the big one os on the horizen already. Every day at 2.30pm, Glasnevin Cemetery is hosting a re-enactment of Patrick Pearse’s famous (or infamous) oration at the grave of the Fenian Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa on 1 August 1915, where he revealed that he and others were, as … Read more
Sugar and the blue-eyed slave
RTE Radio’s ‘Documentary on One’ slot recently broadcast ‘Sugar and the Blue-Eyed Slave’; Joe Kearney’s exploration of the strong Irish connection with the Carribbean island of Montserrat, famously devastated by a volcanic eruption in the 1990s. Joe Kearney first heard of the Irish link to the island from Philly Lynch, a Kilkenny philatelist, who showed … Read more
The Dublin Tenement Experience: Living the Lockout
While on the subject of re-enactments, we might as well mention one with a particular relevance to our current special issue on the 1913 Lockout, in which Tony Canavan wrote a preliminary account of the Dublin Tenement Experience: Living the Lockout (you can read his review, taken from the current issue, elsewhere on the website). … Read more