PART THREE OF TEN SPECIAL MAGAZINES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH 1916 AND COLLECTION Thursday 12 November 2015 www.independent.ie/1916 EOIN MACNEILL AND PLANNING THE REBELLION + Roger Casement and the recruiting 12 November 2015 I Irish Independent trips to Germany mothers&babies 1 INTRODUCTION Contents Abbey aims to 4 PLANNING THE REBELLION Dr Richard McElligott on the fatal mistakes made before the Rising began wake the nation 6 THE FOGGY DEW Dr Lucy Collins on the ‘PLAYS have the power to ask famous Irish lament questions that resonate for 7 SOCIAL MEDIA generations’, according to Abbey director Fiach Mac Conghail. How we conversed in 1916 The famous bar And so, the theatre is among scene in Sean 8 TO BE FROM RATHMINES those planning an extensive O’Casey’s ‘The The social and physical programme for 2016. Plough and the landscape of Dublin on Commemorating one of the Stars’ in a 1964 the eve of the insurrection leading dramatic voices of the Abbey Theatre time, The Gate and The Abbey production 10 SINGLE MINDED are both planning Seán O’Casey IRISH INDEPENDENT Roger Casement had the classics. history of Ireland at his Mark O’Rowe will direct Juno jobs to fight. The ‘Abbey rebels’ returns in summer — 31 years fingers’ ends. By Donal Fallon And The Paycock at The Gate were actors Arthur Shields and after its premiere. from February, while The Plough Seán Connolly (Connolly was Meanwhile, Sean P Summers, 13 NINE LIVES And The Stars will run from killed); actresses Máire nic Philip McMahon and Raymond More VIPs of the time March 9 to April 23 at The Abbey, Shiubhlaigh and Helena Molony, Scannell, and David Ireland have directed by Seán Holmes and usher Ellen Bushell, stage hand been commissioned to write new 14 UCD’S SCHOLAR starring Kate Stanley Brennan. Barney Murphy and prop-man plays: Tina’s Idea Of Fun, Town Is REVOLUTIONARY It will then tour the country and Peadar Kearney, who also wrote Dead and Cyprus Avenue. Eoin MacNeill’s central role, the US. the national anthem. Each is a reflection on 1916’s by Maurice Manning Smock Alley Theatre will A plaque is to be unveiled next legacy; an issue which will be also stage Proclamation, a year to honour the workers who, explored further in ‘1916 In Irish new Commedia Dell’arte play according to Mr Mac Conghail, Theatre’; a conference at NUI written and directed by Ronan ‘did not distinguish between the Galway on May 20 and May 21. PART THREE OF TEN SPECIAL MAGAZINES Dempsey in June. This play is an role of culture and independence, Organised by Professor Patrick IN PARTNERSHIP WITH indictment of Ireland’s health theatre and politics’. Lonergan, it will look at the links AND service as the nation marks 100 Indeed, like its iconic foyer between theatre and the Rising, 1916 years since the Rising. mirror, the Abbey hopes to reflect and the playwriting of Pearse, COLLECTION The Abbey’s ‘Waking the the past. Frank McGuinness’s Connolly and MacDonagh. Thursday 12 November 2015 www.independent.ie/1916 Nation’ 1916 programme also Observe The Sons Of Ulster See www.nuigalway.ie for details. honours the staff who left their Marching Towards The Somme Alison Martin FROM THE UCD ARCHIVES MacNeill letter issued weeks before Irish Volunteers split EOIN MACNEILL AND PLANNING THE REBELLION IN the Autumn of 1914 the Ireland will be defended from + Roger Casement and the recruiting relationship between John foreign invasion by her armed 12 November 2015 I Irish Independent trips to Germany mothers&babies 1 Redmond and the Irish sons...” Volunteers took a turn which At a meeting addressed by Statement to the Irish Published by Independent Newspapers, ultimately led to rupture Redmond in Woodenbridge, Co Volunteers dated 27–32 Talbot Street, Dublin 1, Ireland in that organisation. Redmond Wicklow on 20 September, the 24 September 1914, Editor: Gerard Siggins had previously delivered an tensions in the Irish Volunteers with Eoin MacNeill, [email protected] ultimatum to the provisional reached breaking point when he The O’Rahilly, Patrick committee that it must accept pledged his support to the Allied Pearse, Thomas Design: Joe Coyle 25 nominees of his choosing. cause and urged members to MacDonagh and others For Irish Independent This would have given fight in the war. as signatories him majority control of the Four days later, Eoin Head of Features: UCD ARCHIVES 100,000-strong organisation. MacNeill, as chairman of the Fionnuala McCarthy Then on 3 August, the day before Irish Volunteers Provisional Education Editor: Britain declared war on Germany, Committee, issued a And that “Mr Redmond is no the organisation split. Katherine Donnelly Redmond said in parliament: statement addressed ‘TO THE longer entitled, through his The statement, and further “I say to the Government that IRISH VOLUNTEERS’. It said nominees, to any place in the information, can be accessed For University College Dublin they may tomorrow withdraw Redmond was risking “another administration and guidance of at: http://historyhub.ie/ Dr Conor Mulvagh, lecturer every one of their troops from disruption and the wreck of the Irish Volunteer Organisation”. statement-to-the-irish- in Irish History with special Ireland. I say that the coast of the cause entrusted to him”. Within weeks of the statement volunteers. FC responsibility for the Decade of Commemorations. IN MEMORIAM Eilis O’Brien, Director of Communication and Marketing Funding sought for ‘Roger Niamh Boyle, Marketing Manager Casement Way’ at Banna Cover illustration by Jon Berkeley, shows Eoin MacNeill and to his TWELVE kilometres north- out in nearby McKenna’s Fort right, Roger Casement. west of Tralee lies Banna while his companions, Robert Strand, bounded by the wild Monteith and Daniel Beverley, On his left are Michael O’Hanrahan Atlantic on one side and dunes tried to make contact with and Kaiser Wilhelm that rise up to 12 metres on the local IRB members. The police other. were tipped off and they were There, on 21 April — Good arrested immediately. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Friday in Easter Week — Roger A memorial was erected in Casement came ashore in a 1966 but locals say it is in need small boat having transferred of repair.A committee has there from a German U-boat. been formed to re-enact the AND The shipment of arms went to landing in 2016 and to open the the bottom of the sea in the Roger Casement Way, a 5km Aud. walk from the monument to Casement was sick and hid McKenna’s Fort. GS 2 | Irish Independent 1916 Collection Irish Independent I 12 November 2015 INTRODUCTION REBEL TALES 1916 ONLINE Michael O’Hanrahan novel described as ‘a healthy story of the Gael by a Gael’ MICHAEL O’HANRAHAN was one of the 15 men executed in the immediate aftermath of the Rising. And while several of the leaders were notable poets and playwrights, O’Hanrahan, a journalist, found his artistic outlet as a novelist. He had one novel published Watch more online at before his death, A Swordsman independent.ie/1916 of the Brigade (1914), which was a dashing tale of the Irish AS part of the Irish Brigades in France set in the Independent’s unrivalled early 18th century. He had coverage of the centenary of been working on the tale for the Easter Rising, a dedicated several years while submitting website is now online. The site journalism and creative uses words, pictures and video writing to several journals to enhance understanding under the pen-names ‘Art’ and of a defining moment in our ‘Irish Reader’. nation’s history. The critic Stephen Brown Read excerpts from described A Swordsman of important books, watch the Brigade as “a fine stirring Ryan Tubridy talk about his adventure story of the doings grandfather, and marvel at of one of the Wild Geese: Michael O’Hanrahan: novelist the stunning photos of Dublin in Sheldon’s Division of the in 1916. The site also carries Irish Brigade in the service When the Norman Came, was all the articles in our ongoing of France. Scene; Flanders, published under the name series ‘My 1916’. Bavaria, Italy and Dublin circa Micheál O hAnnracháin by the The independent.ie/1916 site 1693. Told in a breezy way and Dublin house Maunsel. When will continue to build into a thoroughly Irish in spirit.” the Norman Came was quite a Actors, politicians and Abbey members at the launch of the brilliant resource for students His great friend Thomas success and was featured on theatre’s 1916 ‘Waking The Nation’ programme in years to come. MacDonagh generously the school curriculum for many reviewed the book, writing years. “the author knows his history The manuscript of a third GELDOF’S GRANDFATHER COOKED UP A STORM and has caught the atmosphere novel, My Sword, My Fortune, of life at the time. The book is was destroyed during a raid on full of military adventure; a his home in the aftermath of healthy story of the Gael by a the Rising. Gael.” A Swordsman of the Brigade Before his execution he has been out of copyright wrote a letter to his mother for many years but there are granting her copyright to his several copies still available work. His family gathered online. Both his first novel, and copies of his debut novel When the Norman Came, can be together and sold them from read for free on the Internet their shop and by post. In Archive at https://archive.org. 1920 a second historical novel, LS THE LOST CHILDREN The 13-year-old girl who Zenon Geldof (left), was mistaken for a rebel grandfather of Bob (above), was such a renowned chef THE area to the south of the Haddington Road, overlooking he was given special permit former Boland’s Mills is now the barracks and a busy, five-way to pass through the military one of the most prosperous parts intersection.