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The Four Courts and the Easter Rising / “Don’t shoot me! You’ll get into awful trouble”: GPO Staff in 1916 / “Oh yous are all nicely shanghaied now!” The Final Hours of the Rising on Moore Street

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28TH MARCH | EASTER MONDAY
13:30 - 15:30

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Four Courts, Court 5

Introduced by Paul Reynolds, Crime Correspondent, RTÉ

The Four Courts and the Easter Rising

How the 1916 Rising affected the Four Courts and its environs (including North King Street) and how the main journal of the legal profession in this country, The Irish Law Times, dealt with the Rising editorially.

Myles Dungan, Presenter RTE Radio’s The History Show

 

“Don’t shoot me! You’ll get into awful trouble”: GPO Staff in 1916

Stephen Ferguson, Assistant Secretary, An Post

 

“Oh yous are all nicely shanghaied now!”: The Final Hours of the Rising on Moore Street

This talk discusses the final act in the GPO theatre with reference to the physical fabric of the Moore Street buildings and the Witness Statements collected by the Bureau of Military History

Franc Myles, Archaeologist at Archaeology and Built Heritage

 

Photograph courtesy of the National Museum of Ireland 


MANY THANKS TO EACH AND EVERY CONTRIBUTOR, OUR AMBASSADORS AND TOUR GUIDES

Abbey Theatre, An Garda Siochana, Association of Professional Genealogists Ireland, Band of An Garda Siochana, Buswells Hotel, Capuchin Friary, Century Ireland, Cobblestone, Conradh na Gaeilge, Dubray Books Grafton Street, Dublin Fire Brigade Pipe Band, Dublin Institute of Technology, Eason’s O’Connell Street, Gallery of Photography. Garda Historical Society, Generator Hostel, Glasnevin Trust, Grafton Barbers, Hodges Figgis Dawson Street, Irish Film Archive, Irish Veteran & Vintage Car Club. John Shevlin Millinery, Little Museum of Dublin, Louis Copeland & Sons, Manning's Bakery, Massey Funeral Directors, Maynooth University, Merrion Square Artists Association, National College of Art and Design, National Library of Ireland, National Museum at Collins Barracks, National Transport Museum of Ireland, NUI Galway, Poetry Ireland, Queen's University Belfast, Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association, Royal Hibernian Academy, St Michan's Church of Ireland Parish, St Michan's Roman Catholic Parish, St Vincent de Paul, SIPTU, The Four Courts, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, University College Dublin, University of Limerick, University of Ulster, Whyte’s Irish Art & Collectables, National Print Museum, Irish Guild of Weavers Spinners & Dyers, ICA, Feltmakers Ireland, Irish Woodturners Guild, Doran Barber Shop The Pram Doctor, The Merrion Square Artists Association, The Dice Bar, Third Space, The Family Resource Centre St. Michael’s Estate, Brown Bag Films, The Stoneybatter and Smithfield People’s History Project, The Revenue Museum, www.irishmusik.com

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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