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Limerick playwright to perform as left-wing party launches local branch Reporter: );  ); TOP Limerick playwright Mike Finn is among the performers as People Before Profit (PBP) launches a new local branch this Thursday. The left wing alliance, which counts Dublin TDs Paul Murphy and Richard Boyd-Barrett among its number, is to start a new branch in the region, with former local councillors Paul Keller, Joe Harrington and Cian Prendiville supporting it. Mr Prendiville, a City North councillor ...

The National Museum of Ireland holds a collection of over 15,000 objects relating to the revolutionary years of 1914 to 1923, telling the story of the foundation of the Irish state and the men and women who fought to achieve it.  However, there are fewer objects associated with the War of Independence, and also a difference in the type of object collected from these two different phases of the revolution.  Objects collected from the Rising tended to be mementoes of the participants, particula...