The 39th Bundoran (RSF) hunger strike commemoration took place at the end of August, scaled-back due to the coronavirus pandemic (RSF). The poster above, on the electrical box on Northumberland Street, includes Pat Ward alongside the twelve “traditional” hunger strike…
Padraig Pearse was a schoolmaster (at St Enda’s in Dublin) and wrote about the importance of education to the character of the nation. He described the English education system in Ireland as a “murder machine“. In a pamphlet of that…
Two competing posters for two competing dates for two (competing?) Easter Rising parades: the People’s Parade (above) was held today, April 24th, the date of the Rising in 1916; the other was held on this year’s Easter Sunday, March 27th, as…
A pair of boards have been added to either side of one of the Bone memorials in Clós Ard An Lao, one for Na Fianna Éireann – the boys – and one for Cumann na gCailíní – the girls. The…
Photography was still in its infancy in 1850 and would not appear in newspapers until the 1880s (LoC). Instead, newspapers used illustrations to bring their stories to life. This board in Ard An Lao (Ardoyne/Bone) – “An Gorta Mór [The…
This is an update of the Marie Le Bonn Memorial Garden in Ard An Lao/Ardilea, previously seen in 2013. Click and click again to enlarge (to 900 x 1200)Copyright © 2021 Extramural ActivityCamera Settings: f2.4, 1/190, ISO 16, full size…
16 leaders and 70 others who were “killed whilst fighting” in the Rising during Easter Week 1916. Click and click again to enlarge (to 1200 x 1004)Copyright © 2021 Extramural ActivityCamera Settings: f1.8, 1/369, ISO 20, full size 3616 x…
Robert Ballagh’s 1916 Proclamation was first painted as a mural by Mo Chara Kelly and Risteard Ó Mhurchú in 1991 for the 75th anniversary of the Easter Rising (see Cáisc 1916 which also contains the Ballagh piece). That version stood for…
Memorial garden and mural in Clós Ard An Lao, in Ardoyne, in remembrance of 38 local people (“from the greater Bone, Ballybone, Rosapenna area”) who died during the troubles. Previously seen in 2010. Click and click again to enlarge (to…
A fourth piece from Clós Ard An Lao/Ardilea Close, a short, dead-end, street in Ard Eoin/Ardoyne. “In memory of our friends and comrades. This memorial is dedicated to all those Irish Republicans who fought in the struggle for Irish freedom…
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