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Irish History Newsletter Series: Our National Irish Historian, Marilyn Madigan has begun an Irish History Newsletter and designed several posters depicting the work and accomplishments of the Cumann na mBan. Several of the posters, as well as NYS Irish Historian, Regina Begley's posters were on display in the General Meeting room at the 2015 AOH/LAOH NYS Convention. If you have not yet read them, please do so. They would make a wonderful presentation at your Division and/or County meeting and are available for download from the National website. Also, 'like' their new Facebook page: LAOH Honor the Women of 1916.
The 1916 Proclamation.ie: This website is a great resource for the background surrounding the drafting, printing and reprinting of the Irish Proclamation. There are some interesting associations with Countess Markevitz as well as tips on how to tell a reprint from a copy. Decades of the Centenaries.com: "The period from 1912 to 1922 was one of the most eventful in Ireland’s history. From the campaign for Home Rule, through World War One and the Easter Rising of 1916 to the foundation of the Free State, this was a decade of great change. Campaigns for social reforms — highlighted by the suffrage movement and the 1913 Lockout, for example — also went hand in hand with political events. The Decade of Centenaries program aims to commemorate each step that Ireland took between 1912 and 1922 in a tolerant, inclusive and respectful way." |
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A Curious Journey: "This is an excellent film by Kenneth Griffith which was made in 1974 but not shown publicly until 1994. The film is a chronological account of the events leading up to the Rising, as well as interviews with nine people who participated in the events before, during and after the Rising. These interviews relay the feeling in the air of the actual battles, surrender by Padraig Pearse, executions of the leaders, the eventual Civil War and the death of Michael Collins. The riveting accounts from each of these witnesses, who are now long gone, is a priceless treasure."
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The Proclamation of the Irish Republic: The Rhetoric of 1916
"A lecture at the Irish Consulate in NYC given by Professor Richard Aldous. Declaring independence in 1916 was astonishing in the colonial world. The armed struggle, disorganized at the last moment, was easily crushed. The populace seemed unaware that independence could be won. But the callous executions of the leaders stirred their moral sense. The power of the rhetoric in the proclamation caught the attention of all who read it or heard it repeated. It’s clarity nurtured future action and is relevant today in issues of Northern Ireland." |
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Jumping Into the GPO: Women in the Rising
A lecture at the Irish Consulate in NYC given ..."by Lucy McDiarmid author of At Home in the Revolution: what women said and did in 1916, a book that Angela Bourke's review in the Irish Times called "by turns funny and heart-breaking...clear and readable... an important contribution to the history of what it has been like to live in Ireland." |