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A Poet’s Revolt / The Rising: One Hundred Years After / Choral Music

Day	Time	Place	Speaker
28^TH MARCH \| EASTER MONDAY	15:00 - 17:00	St Michan’s Church, Church Street	Aengus MacGrianna Declan Kiberd P.J. Mathews St Mary's College Singers

St Michan’s Church, Church St

Hosted by Aengus MacGrianna, News Reader, RTÉ

A Poet’s Revolt? Literature and the I916 Rising

Poetry and theatre played a huge role in the events that led to the Easter Rising but did the volunteers who saw action on Easter week sign up for combat solely because they read patriotic poems or attended nationalist plays?

P.J. Mathews, Scoil an Bhéarla, na Drámaíochta agus na Scannánaíochta UCD

The Rising: One Hundred Years After

The role of the “future” in the thinking of the Revivalists and Easter Rebels – and their critical attitude to cults of commemoration. This talk will be followed by Choral Music.

Declan Kiberd, Keough Professor of Irish Studies at University of Notre Dame

St Mary’s College Singers

Selection of Popular Traditional Irish Songs performed by the multi-award winning choir.

Photograph courtesy of the RTÉ Archives

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World War I and the Rising: Irish Society and Politics During ‘the War to End All Wars’ / George V’s view of Ireland and reactions to the Rising

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RTÉ would like to gratefully acknowledge the support and participation of the individual speakers who were kind enough to share their research and private collections with the public as part of the RTÉ Reflecting the Rising project. A big thanks also to the many volunteers and actors who gave their time so generously to help make RTÉ Reflecting the Rising a memorable and successful day.

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