The reading of the Proclamation at Dublin’s GPO
Event: Centenary of Easter Rising: Australian connections
Where: Brian Boru Room, Celtic Club, 316 Queen Street, Melbourne
When: Saturday 19th March 2016 at 2.00 pm
Cost: Free entry
Further information: Celtic Club; ph: 9670 6472; or valnoone@iinet.net.au;
Chair:
Val NoonePanel:
Elizabeth Malcolm – Overview of the Rising
Phil Cleary – Cousin Máire Cleary in Cumann na mBan
Maureen Rouse – My father John Delaney in the Tullamore incident
Gerry Halliday – Aunt Brigid Thornton, medical student, interned
Sinéad Brady – Patrick Rankin, cycled from Newry to the GPO
Roseleen Healy – Grandfather Bernard Keogh, veteran of Frongoch
Alice Shirreff – Uncle Nicholas Newport from Wexford
Eamon Naughton – Uncle who died in Flanders at the time
Frances Devlin Glass – Mystery about grandfather’s past
Peter Kiernan – Esmond Kiernan, a republican in Melbourne 1916
Open forum.
- The film, Mise Eire will be shown at 4.00 pm.
