“The Abbey Theatre had a full programme planned for Easter Week 1916. The intention was to perform Kathleen Ní Houlihan by Augusta Gregory and WB Yeats on Easter Monday with The Mineral Workers by William Boyle, and to premiere The Spancel Of Death by T.H. Nally on Easter Tuesday. The Abbey company had been touring in Liverpool and were making their way back to Dublin for a busy week of performances. instead of playing their assigned roles, several actors, staff and writers took to the streets. When the first shots of the rebellion were fired St. John Greer Ervine, Abbey Theatre manager, cancelled all performances. Despite the gunfire and close combat on the surrounding street the Abbey Theatre building didn’t suffer major damage beyond some shattered glass. But the fall-out for the company was much more serious and tragic with the death of one of its members, the internment of others, and the subsequent firing of the acting company.”
“Bhí clár ıomlán beartaıthe ag Amharclann Na Maınıstreach le haghıadh Sheachtaın Na Cásca 1916. Bhí rún acu Kathleen Ní Houlihan la Augusta Gregory agus WB Yeats a chur ı láthaır ar Luan Cásca le The Mineral Workers le William Boyle, agus an chéad léırıú ar The Spancel Of Death le T.H. Nally a láıthrıú Dé Máırt na seachtaıne sın. Bhí Compántas Na Maınıstreach tar éıs a bheıth ar camchuaırt ı Learpholl agus bhíodar ı mbealach a ghlacadh go mBaıle Átha Clıath agus seachtaın bhroıdıúıl de thaıbhıthe rompu amach. In ıonad a bpáırteanna sannta a ghlacadh ar an stáıtse, ıs amhlaıdh a chuaıgh daoıne éagsúla de na haısteorí, den fhoıreann agus he na scíobhneoırí ar na sráıdeanna san ̇Éırí Amach. Nuaır a scaoıleadh na chéad urchaır don reıbılıún, rınne St. John Greer Ervine, baınısteoır Amharclann Na Maınıstreach, na taıbhıthe go léır a chur ar ceal. Aınneoın lámhach na ngunnaí agus an dlúthchógaíocht ar na sráıdeanna mórthımpeall, ní dhearnadh damáıste rómhór d’fhoırgneamh Amharclánn Na Maınıstreach seachas gur brıseadh roınnt fuınneoga. Ach bhí an toradh ı bhfad níos tromchúısí don chompántas sa mhéıd gar maraíodh duıne dá chomhaltaí go tragóıdeach, gur cuıreadh roınnt eıle acu ı bpríosún agus gur brıseadh an compántas aısteoırí as a bpoıst tamall ına dhıaıdh sın.”
There then follow profiles of Thomas MacDonagh, Helena Molony, Máıre Nıc Shıubhlaıgh, Ellen Bushell, Sean Connolly, Barney Murphy, Peadar Kearney, the staff and students of St Enda’s College, Arthur Shields, and Edward Keegan.
The panels are in the windows of Eden House, on Eden Quay.
Also appearing (in the left-most window) is a tribute to Rosanna “Rosie” Hackett, “an Irish insurgent and trade union leader. … She later became a member of the Irish Citizen Army … and in 2014 a Dublin city bridge, the Rosie Hackett bridge (opposite) was named in her memory.”
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