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    April Book Club: On Another Man's Wound by Ernie O'Malley

    April Book Club: On Another Man's Wound by Ernie O'Malley

    ‘On the base of the Pillar was a white poster. Gathered around were groups of men and women. Some looked at it with serious faces, others laughed and sniggered. I began to read it with a smile, but my smile ceased as I read, ‘Poblacht na h-Eireann, the Provisional government of the Irish Republic – to the people of Ireland.’ - Ernie O’Malley – O’Connell Street, Easter Monday When the Easter Rising broke out, Ernie O’Malley was a medical student in Dublin. As with so many Irish people he was profoundly changed by the execution of the leaders of the ...

    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/the-history-show/programmes/2013/0331/377553-the-history-show-sunday-31-march-2013/?clipid=1035003
    Ernie O'Malley - Quotes from On Another Man's Wound

    Ernie O'Malley - Quotes from On Another Man's Wound

    Writing about 1916 ‘In the morning smoke could be seen, and flames, It was terrible to watch. Why had I not known about the fight earlier? I thought of all the chances I had had of joining the Irish Volunteers; instead I had laughed and scoffed. Now, when I wanted to help I could not. A Dublin Fusilier, a friend, came to visit us during the day. He drank his large glasses of whiskey and was eagerly listened to. He was an authority. His officers had told him, ‘Every man you see in green uniform, regard him as a German ...

    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/the-history-show/programmes/2013/0331/377553-the-history-show-sunday-31-march-2013/?clipid=1035013
    How a 1916 Myth Lives On by Joe Duffy

    How a 1916 Myth Lives On by Joe Duffy

    When I compiled a list of 30 children killed in the Easter Rising in for a fund raising project for the Jack and Jill Foundation , little did I know that the reaction would help unravel one of the great misunderstandings of 1916. A number of people contacted me to tell me that I had left out one child- "Gerald Playfair, the 14 year old son of a British solider killed in cold blood by the rebels in the Phoenix Park ." Indeed nearly every history book about the Easter Rising published here in the last two decades- has referred ...

    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/the-history-show/programmes/2013/0324/376691-the-history-show-sunday-24-march-2013/?clipid=1030749

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