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A Terrible Beauty: Remembering Ireland's Easter Rebellion
Hallinan, Conn
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/22/a-terrible-beauty-remembering-irelands-easter-rebellion/Date Written: 2016-03-22 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2016 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX19041 It's a hundred years since some 750 men and women threw up barricades and seized key locations in downtown Dublin. They would be joined by maybe 1,000 more. In six days it would be over, the post office in flames, the streets blackened by shell fire, and the rebellion's leaders on their way to face firing squads against the walls of Kilmainham Jail. And yet the failure of the Easter Rebellion would eventually become one of the most important events in Irish history - a 'failure' that would reverberate worldwide and be mirrored by colonial uprisings almost half a century later. Subject Headings |