During Easter Week Lucy hid arms, and mobilised Cumann na mBan. In 1916 Lucy was romantically linked with Con Colbert, one of the sixteen executed leaders who called her ‘the nicest girl in Dublin.’ Continue reading
Filed under 1916 Commemoration …
Airbrushed from History: Women of 1916
The women of the Rising have not had as much attention over the years as the men. The way that these women were remembered, or rather mostly forgotten, is also an important part of their story. Continue reading
Celtic Club Activities.
Lots of activities happening in the club for the 1916 centenary.
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From the Green Room of ‘The Plough and the Stars’
STEVE GOME, recently nominated for a Green Room Award, plays Peter, the toy soldier, in The Plough and the Stars, O’Casey’s classic tragic-comedy about the Easter Rising, and has been reflecting on a play he increasingly admires: A bunch of people crammed by circumstance into a confined area who know each other – as family, friend or foe … Continue reading
Commemorative Events of the 1916 Easter Rising at the Celtic Club
The Melbourne Celtic Club’s Cultural Heritage Committee is holding a series of commemorative events Continue reading
Féile Bríde 2016
Remembering the women of the 1916 Dublin rising. Continue reading
John Ford, Ireland 1916 Easter Rising Film Night
International film historian Charles Barr charts a pivotal moment in Ireland’s Independence, Continue reading
Recuperating the ‘Drunken, Vainglorious Lout’
As Fallon tells it, MacBride’s role in the Easter Rising as second-in-command to Thomas MacDonagh at Jacob’s Biscuit Factory, was almost accidental. He wasn’t a member of the Irish Volunteers and had supposedly come into Dublin to meet one of his brothers. Continue reading
Brigidfest 2016
Celebrating Irish and Irish-Australian women Continue reading
Celtic Club Activities for November
we can make it the best possible celebration of the 100th Anniversary of The 1916 Rising next year. Continue reading
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