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THE IRISH INDEPENDENT ARCHIVES Destroying Our Good Films PART FIVE OF TEN SPECIAL MAGAZINES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH 1916 AND COLLECTION Thursday 10 December 2015 www.independent.ie/1916 ÉAMONN CEANNT AND THE RISING ERUPTS + WB Yeats’s Easter 1916 and the Proclamation INTRODUCTION Contents Revolutionary 4 UP FOR THE RISING Donal Fallon on how the insurrection started on the morning of Easter Monday notes and words 7 CHANGED UTTERLY Lucy Collins on WB Yeats’s WHEN you think of home, ‘seems to resonate with a meanwhile, is taking part in masterpiece Easter 1916 what does it evoke? The nostalgia for emigration’, she On Revolution on Thursday, 8 THE MANIFESTO National Concert Hall says, ‘it was originally written March 31. He believes it is prompts such questions in its about a short-lived romance’. “important for everyone to Richard McElligott assesses 2016 centenary programme. ‘Lyrically I think in English’, look back at the past... the Proclamation and what ‘Imagining Home’ is a seven- she says ‘but when it comes to because the past is constantly the document stands for concert series in spring: melody and tone, it’s coming changing and constantly 10 IRELAND IN 1916 America, England, Into from somewhere more rooted’. contested. Art, if it’s good, Fergus Cassidy looks at the Europe, On Revolution, The She often uproots to tour offers a special proximity to place of children in society Literary Imagination, This and has crossed the Irish Sea truth,” he says. is Ireland and Out of the “maybe 50 times” to perform And when it comes to 11 DOGGED DEFENDER Tradition. in England. However, it was looking back at Ireland’s Richard McElligott on Seán Heuston Singer-songwriter Lisa a recent “more than choppy” cultural successes of the past Above: writer Joseph O’Neill and Camille O’Sullivan night ferry from France that 100 years, he notes “the Irish O’Neill, who is taking part 12 PIPES OF WAR are among the England line- brings to mind her image of culture of words — Joyce, in ‘On Revolution’ at the Aoife Whelan profiles signatory up on Tuesday, March 29 2016, Ireland: “I lay rocking in the Beckett, late Yeats, Flann National Concert Hall on Éamonn Ceannt while Kim hosted by John Kelly. little cabin bed and I imagined O’Brien, Heaney, Friel, etc”. March 31, 2016. Bielenberg talks to his family “Musically, we are Ireland being a little green He adds: “I’m not a big so connected,” Camille survivor bouncing up and fan of nationalising artistic Right: Camille O’Sullivan 14 A COMPLEX PATRIOT explains of England/Ireland down on the ocean,” she says. achievement, but I can’t will contribute to ‘England’ Fergus O’Farrell on Cathal Brugha relations. Both have toured The concert promises to be willfully fail to notice the at the same venue on considerably in England. a ‘magical’ evening, according asymmetrical per capita March 29. 15 NINE LIVES O’Neill says: “I’ve worked with to O’Sullivan. Among the achievements of ‘our’ writers. More celebrities of the day some wonderful musicians other performers are Martin Ireland has been to writing in like Neill MacColl and Billy Carthy, Cait O’Riordan, Paul English what the Dominican Bragg and I’ve learned from Brady, Andy Irvine and Cathal Republic has been to them.” Coughlan. She is looking baseball.” PART FIVE OF TEN O’Sullivan has also forward to performing at Alison Martin SPECIAL MAGAZINES worked with MacColl, who is home. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH leading the England concert “It’s like being amongst the Tickets for Imagining Home, 1916 AND band. One of O’Neill’s most family, they know you so well,” from Monday, March 28 to evocative songs is ‘England she says. Sunday, April 3 2016 are COLLECTION Thursday 10 December 2015 www.independent.ie/1916 Has My Man’. And while it Writer Joseph O’Neill, available from www.nch.ie FROM THE UCD ARCHIVES The papers of Desmond and Mabel FitzGerald, which includes 179 photographs Fitzgerald’s of historical importance, were placed in the image collection UCD archives in 1987. moved to Bray, County Wicklow. He continued a treasure trove his Irish Volunteer activity there, while ÉAMONN CEANNT AND Mabel campaigned in London for support for THE RISING ERUPTS Francis Sheehy Skeffington’s hunger strike. + WB Yeats’s Easter 1916 and the Proclamation PART of the papers of Desmond FitzGerald Desmond was imprisoned for six months in contains 179 photographs of historical 1915 for making a seditious speech. Published by Independent Newspapers, importance, including atmospheric shots Desmond and Mabel were in the GPO of buildings which were badly damaged garrison during the Rising. Following his 27–32 Talbot Street, Dublin 1, Ireland or destroyed during the Rising. Taken in arrest he was sentenced to 20 years penal Editor: Gerard Siggins Sackville Street, Henry Street and Middle servitude, with ten years remitted, but was [email protected] Abbey Street, the photographer remains then freed in the general release. He was Design: Joe Coyle unknown. elected MP for Pembroke in the 1918 general The papers of Desmond and Mabel election. Mabel was his campaign manager, For Irish Independent FitzGerald were placed in the UCD Archives and she was also elected to the Cumann na Head of Features: by their children, including former Taoiseach mBan executive in 1918. Fionnuala McCarthy Garret FitzGerald, in May 1987. The following year Desmond was appointed Education Editor: Desmond FitzGerald was born in London in director of publicity for Dáil Éireann. In 1922 Katherine Donnelly 1888 of Irish emigrant parents. He met Mabel he was appointed Minister for External Affairs Washington O’Connell at a Gaelic League Irish Volunteers. In 1914 Desmond organised in the Provisional Government and then the For University College Dublin class in London and they married in 1911. Two the Volunteers in west Kerry and became a Free State government. He became Minister years later they moved to west Kerry, where member of the IRB. for Defence in June 1927. Dr Conor Mulvagh, lecturer they connected with Ernest Blythe and The The following year an order was issued The collection of photographs are available in Irish History with special O’Rahilly. In December they visited Dublin under the Defence of the Realm Act which at: http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:30685. responsibility for the and Belfast, meeting leading figures in the banned him from Kerry, and the couple FC Decade of Commemorations. Eilis O’Brien, Director of IN MEMORIAM Communication and Marketing Niamh Boyle, Marketing Manager South Dublin Union memorial keeps track Cover by Jon Berkeley, shows THE modern Luas tram wends British forces during Easter Week Ireland just as surely as if she’d Éamonn Ceannt, WB Yeats its way through the grounds 1916. Commanding officer for the worn the Volunteers uniform.” and Cathal Brugha of what used to be the South area of occupation, Commandant She was a niece of Captain Dublin Union. If you get off at Éamonn Ceannt.’ Myles Keogh, who died in the St James’s stop, you will see Another memorial was unveiled Custer’s Last Stand in 1876. LS the monument to the men and in the complex at what was then IN PARTNERSHIP WITH women who fought there in 1916. known as St Kevin’s Hospital in Q On this page in No 4, the crew of The stone pillar carries a 1965. It marked the spot where the Asgard given was incorrect. bronze plaque with inscriptions Margaret Kehoe, a nurse from Those who sailed were Erskine in Irish and English. The latter Leighlinbridge, Co Carlow was and Molly Childers, Mary Spring AND reads: ‘This building was shot dead when she went out to Rice, Pat McGinley, Charlie occupied and held by volunteers look for a missing patient on the Duggan and Gordon Shepherd. of the 4th Battalion, Dublin first day of the Rising. The latter disembarked in Milford Brigade, Irish Volunteers against Ceannt said: “She died for Haven and rejoined in Howth. 2 | Irish Independent 1916 Collection Irish Independent I 10 December 2015 INTRODUCTION REBEL TALES 1916 ONLINE Drama as comedy film is destroyed THE very first Irish-made film drama was another victim of the Rising. Fun at Finglas Fair, directed by and starring FJ McCormick, was made by James Sullivan’s Film Company of Ireland. The short comedy told the story of two crooks who escape from jail in England and Watch more online at travel to Ireland to rob some independent.ie/1916 farmers. In the end they are caught and thrown into a canal. AS part of the Irish A junior civil servant, Independent’s unrivalled McCormick was born Peter Judge coverage of the centenary of but adopted the stage name to the Easter Rising, a dedicated conceal his identity from his website is now online. The site employers. He was a member of uses words, pictures and video the Abbey players with whom he to enhance understanding became synonymous through the of a defining moment in our plays of Seán O’Casey, and also nation’s history. acted in major British films such Read excerpts from as Odd Man Out and Hungry Hill. important books, watch But despite its historic nature Ryan Tubridy talk about his as the first fiction filmed here, the grandfather, and marvel at only print was destroyed after its the stunning photos of Dublin first and only screening at a trade in 1916. The site also carries fair in Talbot Street in April 1916. all the articles in our ongoing A contemporary witness series ‘My 1916’. later: “After the trade show at The independent.ie/1916 site the Masterpiece, during the will continue to build into a Rebellion, the [British] soldiers brilliant resource for students entered the theatre and amused in years to come.
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