Frank Shouldice: Gratitude is overdue for those who fought for freedom

Veterans learned to live with indifference and even hostility

Participants in the Rising being taken as prisoners to Custom House Quay Smith Album/courtesy the National Museum of ireland
Frank Shouldice, the author’s grandfather, who fought in the Rising at North King Street

The relatives of the men and women who took part in the Easter Rising might well feel things have come full circle. Only two years ago at a commemorative service in Arbour Hill Church, Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin Dr Eamonn Walsh reiterated John ...