Easter Rising commemoration draws thousands in Dublin

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Source: The Guardian

Henry McDonald in Dublin
Sunday 27 March 2016 09.03 EDT

Thousands of people are attending the Irish government’s official commemoration in Dublin of the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule.

More than 3,500 members of Ireland’s defence forces paraded past the exact spot where a century ago the rebellion began – Dublin’s General Post Office (GPO).

In one of the first ceremonies, the Irish president, Michael Higgins, lay a wreath at the spot where 15 rebels were executed for their part in the rebellion.

In a poignant ceremony at the Stonebreakers’ Yard in Dublin’s Kilmainham gaol, the president was flanked by a military guard of honour drawn from the defence forces cadet school.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/27/easter-rising-centenary-to-be-marked-in-dublin-gpo-amid-heavy-security

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[redwitch]

1. I wish I could be in Dublin today!

[roguevalley]

8. Mom's family is from Omagh in the north but we also lived historically in the south. We used to go

to Ireland when she was alive. You can still see the bullet holes in the Post Office walls when you go visit it. The museum is amazing. They have the bandages from the martyrs who were executed by the British when it failed on display. The British really fucked up when they did that because the Rising didn't have mass support until then.

I love the Clancys. Seeing them and Tommy Makem in concert was so much fun.

PS THE WOLF TONES! SWOON!

[redwitch]

10. I have never been to Ireland.

Husband and sons have been, someday I will go there. I love The Wolf Tones!

[roguevalley]

11. They're pretty wonderful aren't they. I also love Silly Wizard, a Scottish band. My dad

was a highlander. Best of both worlds.

Go some day, redwitch. There is no place in the world like it. If you can, take a ferry to Dun Laoghaire and see it from the sea. We stayed at a place in Dalkey where they had a wedding in the lounge going full blast and a funeral wake in the other. Needless to say, we didn't sleep a wink. Ireland is like no other place on Earth.

[redwitch]

12. I hope you crashed both parties!

I love bagpipes and Scottish music too!

[roguevalley]

13. my late cousin Hector Heath taught bagpipes and dancing. He used to play when dignitaries arrived

in town and competed internationally for bagpipes. My cousins and family used to dance and play in bands. SIGH! I love it so. We used to go to what was the moat at Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh mid day on Tuesdays and Thursdays where they would have a piper and a Scottish Country Dancing team (highland dancers) that would demonstrate the dance, then anyone who wanted could join them. It was awesome. I hope they still do that.

[H2O Man]

2. Recommended.

[H2O Man]

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[PatrynXX]

3. I got a shirt for it

wish I could wear it to Easter Dinner in Iowa but it might irritate some people considerying the James Connolly Quote on the back ahh no don't think so, but it was well worth it.

[dorkzilla]

4. Thank you for posting this

I was in Ireland earlier this month, wish I'd stayed for this day.

[socialist_n_TN]

6. Yeah, James Connelly also warned that the job would be incomplete.......

if it didn't include founding a socialist republic of Ireland.

[MisterP]

7. definitely in the same wave as all the other workers'-and-soldiers' councils across Europe

even the French poilus' 1917 sit-down instead of being made Cooling Meat Items #1,052,511

[redwitch]

14. Economic justice was very important to him.

Such a brave and good man!

[Thespian2]

9. I have loved Ireland

since the day I drank me first pint in Dun Laoghaire, south of Dublin...