THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS @abbeytheatre.bsky.social Dublin - Some abstraction in the sets is fine, but several underpar performances mar the flow - @davidnice.bsky.social on an uneven centenary production of #OCasey's #EasterUprising odyssey www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/plou...
#KilmainhamGaol, where many Irish were brutalized (and executed) political prisoners both before 1916's #EasterUprising and during the #IrishCivilWar that followed soon after.
Michael Collins, starring Hunter the Beagle
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Another #Irish movie, usually I wait till closer to #StPatricksDay but I'm on an Irish kick early this year #HunterTheBeagle approves. ☘️
#CouchPotato #SofaSpud #IrishHistory #EasterUprising #IrishCivilWar #CouchColcannon #beagle #film #filmsky #moviesky
Good question/ceist mhaith: "Why Wasn't Éamon de Valera Executed in 1916?"
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#Irelan #IrishHistory #ÉamonDeValera #ÉiríAmachNaCásca #EasterUprising
Éamonn Ceannt sitting on a chair holding a set of uilleann pipes.
Éamonn Ceannt was executed on 8 May 1916 in Kilmainham Gaol. He was one of the seven signatories of the Proclamation of Independence. Michael Mallin, Cornelius “Con” Colbert and Sean Heuston were also executed on the same day.
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The following year their son Seán MacBride was born. MacBride and Maud separated in January 1905.
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which became known as MacBride's Brigade. In 1903 he married Maud Gonne. The following year their son Seán MacBride was born. MacBride and Maud separated in January 1905. 2/2
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He was a friend and schoolmate of James Joyce and the real-life model for a character in Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 2/2
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