First World War RAF ace Henry Allingham celebrates 112th birthday Jun 8, 2008
"TIMES OF HIS LIFEJune 6 1896: Henry William Allingham is born in Clapton, East London, two days after the very first Ford vehicle, the Ford Quadricycle, is constructed.1898: His father dies from tuberculosis when Henry is 18 months old, in the year that Marie and Pierre Curie discover radium, which led to the X-ray machine and radiation treatments. Also that year, Brad's Drink is renamed Pepsi Cola.1915: Following the death of his mother at the age of 42, Allingham enlists with the Royal Naval... (Mirror.co.uk)
Click for Full Story May 3, 2008
In 1916, Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others were executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising. In 1933, Nellie T. Ross became the first female director of the U.S. Mint. (KWTX.com, TX)
Ireland's past is another country May 2, 2008
It centred on Thomas Dunne, a Dublin policeman loyal to the Crown in the tumultuous years that led to the Easter Rising in 1916. His son, Willie Dunne, a soldier in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers at the time of the Rising, is the protagonist of A Long Long Way, in which the same theme of divided loyalty is played out against the bloody backdrop of the First World War. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
BBC makes ten dramas out of the Iraq crisis Jan 25, 2008
In 2000 David Trimble attempted to prevent the screening of Rebel Heart, a Bennett-scripted BBC drama about the Easter Rising, claiming that it was hopelessly one-sided. Peter Barron, Newsnight editor, said: The story our viewers have wanted us to revisit more than any other is the run-up to the war. (Times Online)
Irish Civil War fighter dies at 105 Oct 6, 2007
Mr Keating said attitudes changed after the Easter Rising. His uncles were militants involved in attacks on English landlords' agents during land disputes in the 19th century. (BBC News -- Europe)
Community Events Sep 6, 2007
Doyle will present a brief history of Ireland from "The Easter Rising" of 1916 to the present time, focusing on the most recent conflict and how it has changed Ireland. Newton Library to host hawk presentation The Newton County Library will host a presentation on hawks and other raptors at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15. (Buffalo Reflex, MO)
The golden bird Jul 14, 2007
The Easter Rising and the development of the Irish revolution, culminating in the Anglo-Irish war and the treaty of 1921, altered his public life, and enlisted him (if rather ambivalently) once more as the poet of nationalism. But his personal life was also convulsed, by his final attempt to make Gonne marry him, his subsequent infatuation with her daughter Iseult, and then his sudden marriage - at 52 - to the much younger Georgie Hyde-Lees and the beginning of their supernatural experiments... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Today in History - April 24 Apr 24, 2007
On April 24, 1916, some 1,600 Irish nationalists launched the Easter Rising by seizing several key sites in Dublin. (The rising was put down by British forces almost a week later. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Common ground rising Apr 9, 2007
Today, Easter Monday, is the anniversary of the Easter Rising of 1916, when Irish rebels rose up and declared independence from Britain, with the stated intention of establishing a worker's republic with "equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens . . . oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien government." The declaration's concern for individual rights and pursuit of happiness applied to man and woman, Catholic and Protestant, descendant of colonist and... (Boston Globe)
Irish author shortlisted for top book award Apr 6, 2007
Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields and that festering at home, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising. A moving, intimate and epic, 'A Long Long Way' charts and evokes a terrible coming of age, one too often written out of history. (Irish Examiner)
Yeats 'Easter, 1916' Apr 3, 2007
Yeats 'Easter, 1916': On the Easter Rising ... On the Easter Rising ... William Butler Yeats' poem, "Easter, 1916," focuses on the Irish rebellion known as the Easter Rising, which occurred the week after Easter of 1916 in Dublin, Ireland. (Suite101.com)
Sean O'Casey Mar 16, 2007
The Easter Rising was such a bold and reckless move for the rebels and then O'Casey centres in on the lives of the looters. "Well, that's real life. You see it on the news everyday. It's just human nature. I think O Casey has put a little microscope on the section of a street of a city. Within this big battle there s these people who like running around taking stuff and trying to figure out how to live with no money, with nothing. They are heroes in their own way in terms of an everyday sense... (Suite101.com)
Charlestown man recalls Irish family heritage Mar 16, 2007
To most people in this area, the story of the Easter Rising is nothing more than a history lesson or an interesting tale told around St. Patrick's Day and Easter ... As he rifles through the binders of newspaper clippings, birth certificates and old photos, Mr. Feeney tells his family's story, of the Easter Rising, the Gaelic League and Ireland's fight for independence from England ... "In fact, many of the plans for the uprising took place right in his house." As Mr. Feeney tells it, during... (Naragansett Times, RI)
From Ireland, with recipes Mar 8, 2007
The next day we went on a tour of Kilmainham Gaol, or jail, which is where they held and later executed the organizers of the Easter Rising in 1916. It was a really interesting tour (they filmed "In the Name of the Father" with Daniel Day-Lewis here), but it was freezing out. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Irish, English change their tune Feb 25, 2007
The standing-room portion of the stadium, known as Hill 16, was built from the rubble left behind after the Easter Rising in 1916. But in an act of reconciliation, the Gaelic Athletic Association temporarily relaxed its rule prohibiting the playing of non-Gaelic sports at Croke Park to accommodate the Irish national rugby and soccer teams, whose Lansdowne Road stadium is closed for renovation. (Boston Globe)
In Dublin, Irish and English are prepared to tackle history Feb 24, 2007
A section of Croke Park was built from the rubble left behind after the Easter Rising of 1916, which ignited a wider revolution, so rebellion is in the very ground itself ... The GAA had refused to let rebels who staged the Easter Rising use Croke Park for drills, he said. (Boston Globe)
Rugby: On Irish turf, God save the English Feb 24, 2007
The fourth end, cramped by a railroad line, is a terrace known as Hill 16, originally built with the rubble created by British artillery during the suppression of the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916. On Nov. 21, 1920, the field was the scene of the original Bloody Sunday massacre. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
