PART NINE OF TEN SPECIAL MAGAZINES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH 1916 AND COLLECTION Thursday 18 February 2016 www.independent.ie/1916 THOMAS CLARKE AND THE SURRENDER, TRIALS AND EXECUTIONS + The Rising that shook the world 18 February 2016 I Irish Independent mothers&babies 1 INTRODUCTION Contents Richmond Barracks 4 NAILS IN THE COFFIN Leanne Blaney looks at how the leaders were put to death finally recognised 6 WORLDWIDE ECHOES Eoin Hahessy examines the global impact of the Rising IT is rightly referred to as the of his friend who was one of the “lost chapter” in the 1916 story. executed 1916 leaders. 7 SIXTEEN DEAD MEN Many people may not know Ledwidge’s friend, mentor and Lucy Collins on WB Yeats’s poem of its existence, but in the fellow Meath man, Lord Dunsany narrative of the dramatic events was a captain in the Royal 8 THE QUIET FENIAN of the Easter Rising in Dublin, Inniskillings and it was to him Helen Litton on the fires that Richmond Barracks, Inchicore that the poet gave the manuscript burned within Thomas Clarke played a significant role. of Lament for Thomas Now, a century on, it is getting McDonagh. ARCHIVES 10 READ ALL ABOUT IT ready to take its place as one of The barracks was converted Felix Larkin reveals how Dublin the State’s seven “permanent to housing in the 1920s and newspapers covered the Rising reminders” of renamed Keogh Square, which 1916, alongside the likes of its declined into a slum and was GRAPHIC 12 OFFICER IN A BLACK CAP near neighbour, Kilmainham demolished in the 1960s to make TO Robert D Maxwell profiles courts Gaol, the GPO, and Patrick Restoration work underway way for St Michael’s Estate, an PHO martial judge Charles Blackader Pearse’s cottage in Rosmuc, Co at Richmond Barracks equally notorious flats complex Galway. gymnasium. GERRY MOONEY which was razed in recent years 13 TRIAL OR TRAVESTY? Richmond Barracks is where as part of a regeneration project, TIONAL Niamh Howlin looks at the justice more than 3,000 suspected being restored as part of the now boosted by the restoration of NA meted out to Roger Casement rebels, including Rising leaders State’s 1916 legacy project, in a historic buildings. and 77 women, were imprisoned partnership that also involves Éadaoín Ní Chléirigh, one 14 A NEW ENTERTAINMENT before they were sent for Dublin City Council and the local of the tireless campaigners for Fergus Cassidy on how cinema execution or to prison camps in community. its preservation, is now executive took off in the years up to 1916 England and Wales. The third surviving building, chair of the Richmond Barracks The Richmond gymnasium also a former recreation room, project. was where Rising leaders were standing on the other side of the When the restored buildings UDIES singled out and where the court gymnasium, is in use by the HSE. open on May 2, the gymnasium ST PART NINE OF TEN martials were held before they Richmond Barracks is about will be home to an immersive CAL SPECIAL MAGAZINES were brought down the road to more than 1916. Built in early to audio-visual experience evoking LO IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Kilmainham to be shot. the mid-1800s, soldiers departed the atmosphere in this space 1916 AND British Prime Minister Herbert from here for conflicts including following the Rising and stories COLLECTION Asquith visited Richmond the Crimean War, the Boer War of some of those involved Thursday 18 February 2016 www.independent.ie/1916 Barracks in the middle of May and First World War. Surrounded by gardens, the LIBRARIES 1916, following which there were One of its regiments was the restored buildings will also house no further executions. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, a a tea room and archives, and The gymnasium is one of three well-known member of which classrooms from the 1929 school barracks’ buildings that remain was the poet Francis Ledwidge, building will become a venue DUBLIN and it and a former recreation whose work includes Lament for for community, educational and room standing alongside it are Thomas McDonagh, in honour artistic purposes. KD SOUTH IN MEMORIAM PUBLIC EVENTS THOMAS CLARKE AND THE SURRENDER, TRIALS AND EXECUTIONS UCD conference explores + The Rising that shook the world 18 February 2016 I Irish Independent mothers&babies 1 the language and culture Published by Independent Newspapers, 27–32 Talbot Street, Dublin 1, Ireland TORTHAÍ na Réabhlóide na Gaeilge agus an chultúir Editor: Gerard Siggins 1913-1923 / The Revolutionary in Éirinn sa chomhdháil [email protected] Period 1913-1923: Results and idirnáisiúnta, dhátheangach Reappraisal is an international, agus sa taispeántas seo. Déanfar Design: Joe Coyle bilingual conference and measúnú ar anáil Thréimhse For Irish Independent exhibition at UCD this weekend. na Réabhlóide 1913-1923 ar Francis Sheehy-Skeffington with his Its focus will be a reappraisal phobail na Gaeilge i gcomhthéacs Head of Features: wife Hannah (above) and the plaque of language and cultural revival, náisiúnta agus idirnáisiúnta. Fionnuala McCarthy in Cathal Brugha Barracks (left). while at the same time assessing Mar thoradh ar an bhfís a Education Editor: the impact of the Revolutionary léirigh na hAthbheochanóirí Katherine Donnelly Period on national and diasporic tháinig litríocht na Gaeilge, Sheehy-Skeffington killing Irish-language communities. na hEalaíona, cúrsaí For University College Dublin Their vision triggered a revival scannánaíochta, cúrsaí Dr Conor Mulvagh, lecturer was an act of insanity in Irish-language literature as oideachais, féilte Gaeilge in Irish History with special well as the promotion of the arts, agus athruithe eile i sochaí responsibility for the TUCKED away in Cathal Brugha Bowen-Colthurst, had them cinema, and education in the Irish na hÉireann chun tosaigh, a Decade of Commemorations. Barracks in Portobello is a fine shot. The officer was later language and cultural festivals, chinntigh láithreacht agus memorial to a victim of 1916. charged with murder and court- all of which ensured that the Irish infheictheacht na Gaeilge mar Eilis O’Brien, Director of Described on the plaque as martialed. He pleaded insanity language itself became an integral ghné lárnach de shochaí agus Communication and Marketing ‘feminist, pacifist, socialist, and was sent to hospital but by part of Irish society and identity d’fhéiniúlacht na hÉireann. Niamh Boyle, Marketing Manager republican’, Francis Sheehy- 1921 he was found to be cured which extended beyond the shores Sháraigh sé seo teorainneacha Skeffington was shot there on the and released on an army pension. of Ireland. an oileáin agus bhí cuid Cover, by Jon Berkeley, shows Wednesday of Easter week. Seán O’Casey wrote, “In Themes to be addressed mhaith de dhul chun cinn na Thomas Clarke, Francis A friend of James Joyce at Sheehy-Skeffington, and not in in this bilingual conference Athbheochana ag brath ar Sheehy-Skeffington, Roger UCD, Skeffington was involved Connolly, fell the first martyr include: lexicography, literature, ionchur ón diaspóra Éireannach. Casement and James Connolly with the Irish Citizen Army but to Irish Socialism, for he linked language, place-names research, Sa chomhdháil seo déanfar left because it conflicted with Ireland not only with the little biography, print and broadcast iniúchadh ar na naisc a his pacifist beliefs. He married nations struggling for self- journalism, film, and the digital cruthaíodh agus déanfar anailís the celebrated feminist Hanna expression, but with the world’s humanities with keynote ar dhúshláin agus ar bhuanna IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Sheehy in 1912 and they both took Humanity struggling for a higher speakers Professor Jerry White, na gluaiseachta i gcomhthéacs each other’s name. life.” Canadian Research Chair in náisiúnta agus idirnáisiúnta. Sheehy-Skeffington was The plaque was unveiled in European Studies, Dalhousie The events take place arrested without charge, and 1970 by Nora Connolly O’Brien, University, Canada, and An Dr tomorrow and Saturday (Feb AND held with two other journalists, daughter of James Connolly. Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, Writer and 19-20) at the Pearse Museum and Patrick McIntyre and Thomas Also present was the Sheehy- Lecturer, UCD. Newman Building in Belfield. Dickson in Portobello. The Skeffingtons’ son Owen, a long- Déanfar athbhreithniú For more information, go to commanding officer, Major serving Trinity senator. LS ar spriocanna athbheochan www.ucd.ie/icsf/ 2 | Irish Independent 1916 Collection Irish Independent I Thursday 18 February 2016 INTRODUCTION THE LOST CHILDREN 1916 ONLINE Two-year-old Seán Foster shot as he lay in his pram SEÁN FRANCIS FOSTER had already lost his father to war when his own short life was ended on Easter Monday morning. Private John Foster, a cooper (barrel-maker) with Guinness, was a rifleman when he died at Auber’s Ridge in France in May 1915. Watch more online at Less than a year later his independent.ie/1916 widow, Katie, was pushing Seán in a pram from their AS part of the Irish home in Stoneybatter Independent’s unrivalled towards Church Street coverage of the centenary of when she came across a the Easter Rising, a dedicated barricade and was surprised Clockwise from above: Michael website is now online. The site to see one of those manning it O’Hanrahan being escorted into his uses words, pictures and video was her brother, Joseph court martial at Richmond Barracks to enhance understanding O’Neill. on May 3 1916; prisoners under escort of a defining moment in our While they chatted, firing in the Barracks; the married quarters nation’s history. broke out as the Volunteers where the women prisoners were UDIES Read excerpts from came upon a party of Lancers held in 1916; Major John MacBride is ST important books, watch riding up the quays on escorted through the Barracks. CAL Ryan Tubridy talk about his horseback.