#easterrising — Public Fediverse posts
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#GerryAdams welcomes historian #GerardShannon for a remarkable interview about Shannon's new book on #IRA leader #RoryOConnor, who was executed during the #IrishCivilWar
https://www.buzzsprout.com/991288/episodes/19182769-special-episode-in-conversation-with-author-gerard-shannon
#Ireland #IrishHistory #EasterRising #IrishRepublicanArmy #SinnFéin #IrishWarOfIndependence #BattleOfDublin #books #biographies @bookstodon -
JAMES CONNOLLY 110th ANNIVERSARY
In the early hours of May 12th 1916, #JamesConnolly, was taken by stretcher from Dublin Castle to the stonebreakers yard in #Kilmainham Jail, strapped to a wooden chair, and executed by a #BritishArmy firing squad.
James Connolly was a Marxist, a patriot, an internationalist and the leader of the revolutionary working class in the #EasterRising. His execution was among the blackest crimes of imperialism against #Ireland and the international socialist movement.
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The #EasterRising began 110 years ago #OnThisDay
British and Irish #history have been entwined for centuries, often fatally so. Why then are so many Brits ignorant of their neighbour to the west?
🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/why-do-british-know-so-little-about-irish-history
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"Ireland that has wronged no man, that has injured no land, that has sought no dominion over others. Ireland is treated today among other nations of the world as if she was a convicted criminal. If it be treason to fight against such an unnatural fate as this, then I am proud to be a rebel and shall cling to my rebellion with the last drop of my blood."
― Roger Casement. One of the 16 executed rebels of the 1916 Easter Rising
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She died at the age of 59 of complications after two appendicitis operations, a dangerous surgery in the days before antibiotics.
She had given away the last of her wealth, and died in a public ward "among the poor where she wanted to be".
She was refused a state funeral by the Free State government. 2/2#Ireland #IrishHistory #CountessMarkievicz #EasterRising #OnThisDay
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Countess Markievicz died on 15 July 1927 in Dublin. A founding member of Fianna Éireann, Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army, she took part in the Easter Rising in 1916. She was sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment on the grounds of her sex. She was the first woman elected to the UK House of Commons. She was elected Minister for Labour in the First Dáil, becoming the first female cabinet minister in Europe. 1/2
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"Michael Collins monument, Grand Parade Cork"
#michaelcollins #monument #statue #history #memory #memorykeeping #grandparade #grandparadecork #cork #corkcity #ireland #easterrising #easterrising1916 #sunnyday #photooftheday #onpassing #quickshot #urban #urbanart #city #street #streetphotography #ciudad #ciudadanas #shotoniphone #iphone12mini
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It was a very gripping read and I totally got drawn into the flow of the lives of the Irish women who did fight to save as many mothers and newborns as they could. - The portrait of the obstetrician and physician Dr. Kathleen Lynn is the true story of a woman with exactly that name that lived beyond the norm, was a key figure in the 1916 Easter Rising and previously was a member of the Irish suffragettes.
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Following the defeat of the Easter Rising and the arrest of the majority of its leaders, he was taken to Kilmainham Gaol and executed by firing squad for his part in its proceedings. 2/2
#Ireland #IrishHistory #JamesConnolly #EasterRising #OnThisDay
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James Connolly (Séamas Ó Conghaile) was born on 5 June 1868 to Irish parents in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, Connolly left school for working life at the age of 11, and became involved in socialist politics in the 1880s.
He opposed British rule in Ireland, and was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916, commanding the Irish Citizen Army throughout.
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#Ireland #IrishHistory #JamesConnolly #EasterRising #OnThisDay
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‘Scotland is my home, but Ireland my country.’ Margaret Skinnider 2/2
#Ireland #Dublin #IrishHistory #ÉiríAmachNaCásca #EasterRising #MargaretSkinnider #Feminism #Coatbridge #Scotland #OnThisDay
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Instead of being marched to the same spot where the others had been executed, at the far end of the execution yard, Connolly was tied to a chair and then shot.
Fuair siad bás ar son Saoirse na hÉireann. 2/2
#Ireland #IrishHistory #EasterRising #ÉiríAmachNaCásca #Dublin #JamesConnolly #SeánMacDiarmada #OnThisDay
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On 4th May 1916 Edward Daly (Éamonn Ó Dálaigh), Michael O’Hanrahan (Mícheál Ó hAnnracháin), William Pearse (Uilliam Seamus Mac Piarais) (brother of Pádraig Pearse) and Joseph Mary Plunkett (Seosamh Máire Pluincéid) were executed by the British occupying forces in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #EasterRising #WilliamPearse #EdwardDaly #MichaelOHanrahan #PádraigPearse #JosephMaryPlunkett #KilmainhamGaol #Dublin #OnThisDay
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On 4 May 1976 Rosie Hackett died. She was a nationalist, a trade unionist, and a workers' rights activist. She was only 18 when she led workers at Jacob's Biscuits to strike for better conditions. She went to form the Irish Women Worker's Union with Delia Larkin, Jim Larkin's sister. She took part in the Easter Rising as a nurse.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #RosieHackett #IrishWomenWorkersUnion #DeliaLarkin #JimLarkin #EasterRising
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On 29 April 1916 Michael Joseph O’Rahilly, ‘The O’Rahilly’ ('an Rathghailleach') died. He was a Republican who took part in the Easter Rising. He was killed in a charge on a British machine gun post covering the retreat from the Dublin GPO during the fighting.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #EasterRising #ÉiríAmachNaCásca #TheORahilly #Dublin #OnThisDay
[Edit: 'an Ua Rathghaille' corrected to 'an Rathghailleach']
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On 29 April 1916 Pádraig Mac Piarais (Pádraig Pearse) ordered the surrender of the rebels bringing to an end the Easter Rising (Éirí Amach na Cásca). Approximately 64 rebels, 132 crown forces, and 230 civilians had been killed. 2,500 people had been wounded and the centre of Dublin had been devastated by the shelling.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #EasterRising #ÉiríAmachNaCásca #PádraigPearse #Dublin #OnThisDay
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On this day in 1183 BCE, traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy marks the end of the legendary Trojan War. #Troy #TrojanWar
On this day in 1916, Easter Rising: Irish rebels launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.#Ireland #EasterRising
On this day in 1967, Soviet Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 as its parachute becomes entangled. The first man to die during a space mission. #Soyuz #Space