Today is the 100th anniversary of the start of the Easter Rebellion in Ireland, when a rag tag group of volunteers hung the Irish flag over the GPO in Dublin. The rebellion was short lived and its leaders were executed but it started the flame that led to the province becoming a nation once again.
Yet Another Page ( I am lazy on Sunday’s)
An interesting article marking the peaceful observance of the event
I was going to play this album last month during St Paddy’s Day but decided to hold off until today. Here is the Clancy Brothers with a Medley to commemorate what was at the time the 50th anniversary of the uprising. It includes “The Foggy Dew”, O’Casey’s “Drums Under The Windows” and Yeats’ “Easter 1916”. I have heard better medleys on this from the Clancy’s but this will have to do.
I planned to do a better post for this but it is Sunday and I am lazy today.