The material can be found by following the ‘1916 commemorations’ link on the website of the Department of the Taoiseach, www.taoiseach.gov.ie . See also the article by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern, in the Irish Times on Remembrance Day (11 November) 2005. The printed version of the brochure was memorable for many reasons, not the least of which was its judicious use of visual imagery to complement the text.
Ibid .
Sunday Independent , 26 February 2006.
See, for example, the spirited letter from Pat Muldowney of Derry, Irish Independent , 8 March 2006, and the measured response by Gerald Morgan of Trinity College, Ibid ., 21 March 2006.
See the request for ‘reciprocity’ from such unionists by Martin Mansergh, Irish Times , 11 February 2006, and the response from unionists in the Irish News , 7 March 2006.
The government’s support for the ‘Shot at Dawn’ campaign, which sought pardons for serving soldiers executed by the British army during the First World War, also attracted commendation in several quarters. For an insightful discussion on the connections between Dublin in Easter Week and events on the western front see Robert Fisk’s article in the London Independent , 30 April 2006.
Evening Echo , 11 April 2006.
Irish Examiner , 13 February 2006.
Irish Examiner , 10 April 2006.
A view articulated, for example, by Kevin Myers in the Irish Times , 1 February 2006.
Letter from Ernest Crosse, Chapelizod, Dublin, Sunday Independent , 12 February 2006. The reference to Ruth Dudley Edwards was to her column in the previous week’s edition of the paper, wherein she argued that Ireland was both well, and democratically, governed in 1916.
Evening Echo , 13 April 2006, and the Irish Independent , 15 April 2006.
Brian Kennedy, Dublin 2, writing to the Irish Independent , 20 February 2006.
Sunday Independent , 12 February 2006.
Irish Independent , 10 May 2006.
Alan Ó Maonaigh, Co. Meath, writing to the Irish Independent , 17 April 2006.
Irish Times , 11 February 2006.
Thus Liz McManus TD wrote in the Sunday Independent , 26 February, that the absence of such a mandate was one of the most ‘serious and consistent’ charges that could be levelled against it.
Ibid ., 3 February 2006.
Irish Times , 4 February 2006. See also the reference by Roy Garland to ‘fascist elements’ within the 1916 revolutionary cohort. Irish News , 30 January 2006.
Guardian , 9 April 2006.
London Independent , 15 April 2006.
Irish Times , 3 February 2006.
Pádraic MacBheatha, Co. Meath, Ibid ., 7 March 2006.