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“…the general awakening that was taking place in Ireland seemed to make us forget everything else for the time and think only of the fight in prospect.” – Joe McGarrity Joe McGarrity was Éamon de Valera’s right hand man in America and was once described by poet Padraic Colum as “a gallowglass ready to swing
Shocking video footage from the event shows masked teenagers carrying petrol bombs in crates, while a van was destroyed after being engulfed in flames.
Hanged by the British in 1916 for working with Germany and Irish nationalists in planning the Easter Rising of 1916, Sir Roger Casement is remembered as the “father of twentieth-century human rights investigations.” Standing in the gallows of Britain’s Pentonville Prison, Casement was asked by the governor if he had any final words. He did,
President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins laid a wreath at Dublin's GPO on March 31 to commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising.
The battle for the hearts and minds of the Boston Irish took a sharp turn in the aftermath of the 1916 Irish Rising. Prior to the 1916 Rising, Boston’s Irish community had maintained some equilibrium between those who favored constitutional methods of Home Rule, and those for physical force and agitation. And within this spectrum were