Category: Features

Ireland’s Invisible People: the Celtic present meets the Celtic past

Rising majestically above Dublin’s busiest street, the Georgian façade of the General Post Office still contains bullet holes – grim reminders of Easter Monday 1916, when Padraic Pearse read a declaration that signalled the start of the Easter Rising and the beginning of Irish Independence. ‘In the name of God,’ he began, ‘and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.’ Read more