Courtney McGrailFr Joe McVeigh The men and women who led and took part in the 1916 Rising were idealists of a kind rarely seen in any country except when there are extreme situations of oppression and tyranny as a result of colonisation by an outside force. These men and women had seen the dreadful poverty, the…
Month: December 2015
‘On an equality with men…’
Greg DalyThough often overlooked, women played a key role in the Rising, writes Greg Daly
Ministers of mercy
Fr Bryan Shortall tells Greg Daly about the Capuchin experience during the Rising
As seen by The Irish Catholic…
Mags GarganMags Gargan describes how this newspaper reported on the Rising in the weeks after the insurgency
Secular agenda should not hijack the Rising
Dr Martin ManserghIreland has never embraced the French republican model, writes Martin Mansergh
A golden year
Greg Daly considers aspects of how the Rising was commemorated on its 50th anniversary
The last surviving child of a 1916 leader
Mags Gargan looks at the life of Fr Joseph Mallin SJ
The Rising’s Capuchins… in their own words
“There was no joking, not even the semblance of it. Poor Colbert was far too beautiful and too reverent a character to joke with anyone in such a solemn hour. I know very well where his heart was then. It was very near to God and to the friends he loved. “What really happened was…
A divided hierarchy
The Church’s attitude to the Rising was far more complex than newspaper reports suggested at the time, Greg Daly discovers
The dead generations
The funeral of O’Donovan Rossa was part of a long tradition of nationalist funerals, Greg Daly learns