What exactly are we commemorating?
Confusion surrounds plans for the Rising’s centenary. Perhaps that is strangely appropriate
I don’t know what we are commemorating. Is it the execution of 16 men? Or the
Easter Rising itself? The moment when the collective Irish mindset transferred
expectations from Home Rule to independence? Or is it the Proclamation of Ireland as a
Republic? “We have chosen to commemorate this time as marking the birth of our
sovereign nation.” So said the Taoiseach at the launch of the ...