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Clár Comórtha Céad Blıaın

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Here is a gallery of large banners in Dublin city centre, many promoting the official centenary programme/Clár Comórtha Céad Blıaın (Irish Times | Irish Times).

Women Of The Rising in Store Street
Seven Signatories in O’Connell Street
Join The Rising in Parnell Square West
Rotunda in Parnell Street
Is Cuımhın Lınn in O’Connell Street
Proclamation in Wood Quay
Reflecting The Rising in St Mary’s Abbey
How Will You Remember? in Chancery Street
Asgard in Collins Barracks
Centenary Programme in Moore Street

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The People’s Parade

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The People’s Parade (i.e. the parade supported by anti-Agreement groups) takes place April 24th, the date of the Rising in 1916; the other (Sınn Féın) parade was held on Easter Sunday, which this year was March 27th. The second board is above the RSF office/shop in the middle Falls; the upper image is on the International Wall, Divis Street, during the long time that it was being painted (and vandalised) for the centenary – it would eventually be launched on the anniversary of Casement’s execution, on August 3rd.

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Ever Idolised When Dead

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The PD/Cumann Sóısıalta Bhaıle Andarsan/Andersonstown Social Club was one of the early stops for the travelling version of the ‘Revolution 1916’ exhibition that was hosted by the Ambassador theatre – see Revolution 1916.

The mural immediately above was painted to accompany the exhibition, reproducing the left-hand grouping from Walter Paget’s Birth Of The Irish Republic and putting the Proclamation in the background. For Paget’s original drawing and other versions of it, see the drawing’s Visual History page.

The new plaque (added to the memorial garden) reads, “1916 – 2026. We serve neither king nor kaiser, but Ireland. This plaque was erected to the memory of the men and women who give their lives in the fight for Irish freedom. “Apostles of freedom are ever idolised when dead but crucified when alive.” – James Connolly.” [from 1898’s The Men We Honour]

Also featured are Roger Casement and Winifred Carney, and a long-standing plaque to Danny Burke and Jack McCartan, former managers of the club who were “murdered by the British Army on these premises” (An Phoblacht).

PD, South Link, Andersonstown, west Belfast

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Republican Coalisland

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“We salute the memory of all those who have given their lives for the cause of Irish freedom.” Both pro-Agreement (Sinn Féin) and anti-Agreement (IRPWA/Saoradh/New IRA) groups are marking the centenary of the Easter Rising. Also included is a commemoration of the (1981) Hunger Strike and support expressed for Gaza: “#FreeGaza #BoycottIsreal [sic]”

Lineside, Barrack Street, and Mourne Road, Coalisland

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The Cause Of Irish Freedom

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“1916 – 2016. We salute the memory of all those who have given their lives in the cause of Irish freedom.” This is an extension by the RNU (web), on the centenary of the Easter Rising, to the large tarp seen in Ardoyne’s Fallen Fıanna. The plaque was recorded in 2011.

Berwick Road, Ardoyne, north Belfast

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Free Tony Taylor

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Derry republican and RNU (web) spokesperson Tony Taylor was released under the conditions of the Good Friday agreement. He was jailed for three years in 2011 for possession of a rifle. His license was revoked in March (2016) and he was returned to prison on the grounds that he poses a danger to the public. Both RNU/Cogús and Sınn Féın have called for his release. (Irish News)

Berwick Road, Ardoyne, north Belfast

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Na Fıanna Éıreann

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Here is a Na Fıanna Éıreann mural in Ardoyne with Easter lilies on each side of the Fıanna’s ‘sunburst’ (gal gréıne) emblem (which also includes a pike or bill).

For a history of sunburst flags, with lots of images, see An Sıonnach Fıonn. A banner sporting an early version of the emblem, owned by Countess Markievicz during the Rising, was recently returned from London to Dublin (Irish Times).

Like the name “Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann”, “Na Fıanna Éıreann” has been used by many organisations for their youth division; this one is associated with the RNU (web).

Berwick Road, Ardoyne, across the street from Ardoyne’s Fallen Fıanna.

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In Commemoration Of Easter 1916

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“In commemoration of Easter 1916 – 2016. Ardoyne – Bone – Ligoniel. Unbowed – unbroken.”

Tom Clarke is at the head of his fellow signatories as he looks down over a printed tarp reproducing photographs of events surrounding the Easter Rising of 1916, including soldiers from the Irish Citizen Army on a rooftop (see the original in this Spectator article) and members of Cumann Na mBan on parade. For the photo of the building in the top left, see this Irish Times article.

The previous Ardoyne – Bone – Ligoniel mural fell down almost as soon as it was completed, leaving only the boards with portraits of locals killed during the troubles. The stone and plaque (in the final images) go back to the mural before that.

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