The new mural on the International Wall is book-ended on the left-hand side by a host of Irish nationalists from the centuries before the 1916 Rising, who continue to watch over the unfolding drama of the nationalist cause. In chronological order, the figures depicted are …

• Theobold Wolfe Tone (1768-1798), the main figure shown above, leader of the United Irishmen and the 1798 rebellion
• Betsy Gray, female in green, who died in the 1798 rebellion
• Henry Joy McCraken (1767-1798) second from the left at bottom, leader of the 1798 rebellion in County Antrim, rising on June 6
• Mary Anne McCracken (1770-1876) on Tone’s cheekbone, political activist and anti-slavery and poverty reformer
• Robert Emmett (1778-1803) obscured by pole, leader of a revolt in 1803
• Anna Wheeler (1780-1848), female in purple, feminist author
• James Fintan Lalor (1807-1849), bottom left, writer and political activist
• Thomas Davis (1814-1845) small portrait below Gray, organiser of Young Ireland
• John Mitchel (1815-1875) top row left of the pole, Young Ireland and the Irish Confederation
• Michael Davitt (1846-1906) third from left at bottom, founder of the Land League and who took part in the Fenian Rising of 1867
• John Devoy (1842-1928) fourth from left at bottom, one of the Cuba Five, exiled to the U.S. in 1871, and active in all of the Fenian Rising, the 1916 Rising, and the War of Independence

(There is a twelfth figure, in a bowler hat, top left. If you know who this is, please get in touch.)

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