‘Imagining the past to remember the future’?: Easter 1916 in 2016

‘Imagining the past to remember the future’?: Easter 1916 in 2016 By Fearghal McGarry In ‘Easter, 1916’, Yeats identified the sacrifice of the insurgents with resurrection, just as Patrick Pearse had intended: ‘Life springs from death’. Many veterans also recalled the rebellion as transformative. ‘Then came like a thunderclap the 1916 Rising’, recorded Ernie O’Malley, ... Read more

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