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The Darlinghurst Seven
A small number of citizens of Irish extraction decided that it was better to fight for Ireland than for the Empire Continue reading
Reflections On The Significance Of Easter Week 1916 (Part Two)
Yes – 1916 was the great break with the past! Continue reading
Remembering the Rising
It is important that in remembering and commemorating what happened that we don’t glorify or justify it. Continue reading
Portrait of a patriot – Thomas Kent
A Book Review by Renée Huish Meda Ryan: 16 Lives: Thomas Kent, O’Brien Press, Dublin, 2016. ISBN: 9781847172655 RRP: €14.99 paperback; €10.99 ePub. In the wake of The Easter Rising in Ireland in April 1916 fourteen men were executed by firing squad at Kilmainham gaol in Dublin. Thomas Kent was executed in Cork. All the firing squad executions … Continue reading
Remembering 24th April 1916
The 24th April 1916 is the actual date of the Easter Rising in Dublin. Continue reading
The Easter Rising – another context?
Did the leaders of the Rising fully expect civilians, including children, to die for the cause? Continue reading
Reflections On The Significance Of Easter Week 1916 (Part One)
it was a terrible beauty because of the fundamental transformation of the legend of Ireland and her people which it initiated and the transition to a new Ireland which it inaugurated – for Ireland was indeed to be ‘changed, changed utterly’. Continue reading
The Educational Philosophy of Patrick H Pearse
Pearse’s philosophy of education is informed by one simple idea: the necessity for a secure sense of identity. Continue reading
Australasian Irish Studies Conference 2016
22nd Australasian Irish Studies Conference.
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