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Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a vast and conflicting range of visions of thatContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Insurrectionary Hopes
Few Irish nationalist commentators or politicians doubt that the insurrection of Easter 1916 was the most important event in 20th-century Irish history, marking the moment when Ireland emerged symbolically from English domination. Sinn Fein’s extraor ... (read full critics)
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Nicholas Whyte 
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Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion by Charles Townshend 360pp, Penguin, £20 It is the fate of great poets that many of their most resonant lines degenerate into cliché through over-use. Yeats in his grave must be bitterly regretting that ringing declar ... (read full critics)