Rebel Rebel – ANU Productions
City Hall, The Rotunda Round Hall “Did that play of mine send out certain men the English shot?” – W.B. Yeats Anu Productions’s Aisling...
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On the morning of Easter Monday, 1916, members of the Irish Citizen Army and Irish Volunteers gathered at Liberty Hall before marching across the Liffey to Dublin Castle. Perhaps expecting a greater force of British soldiers, the rebels never took advantage of their surprise attack on the nerve centre of the British administration in Ireland and failed to capture the Castle.
Led by Abbey Theatre actor Seán Connolly, the garrison occupied City Hall next door instead. Connolly soon became the first rebel casualty of the Rising, shot as he walked across its roof.
A day of evocative and dramatic performances await at this location, the site of the first casualty of the Easter Rising. with short historical talks preceding some of the events. Walking tours will leave from Barnardo Square beside the hall and keep an eye out for the women of St. Michael’s Estate Family Resource Centre, as they commemorate the march made by women prisoners to Richmond Barracks.
Photograph of City Hall courtesy of RTÉ Archives.
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