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Images of 1916 Ireland & the Western Front. ‘Ireland in Schools’. Irish leaders: Edward Carson; John Redmond; Patrick Pearse. The Birth of the Irish Republic by Walter Paget, 1916. The Birth of the Irish Republic by Walter Paget, 1916.
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Images of 1916 Ireland & the Western Front ‘Ireland in Schools’
‘The Attack by the 36th (Ulster) Division, Somme, 1 July 1916’, 1917
Parade of Irish Citizen Army outside Liberty Hall, Dublin, HQ of Irish Transport Workers Union
Patrick Pearse outside the GPO in Dublin, sticking up the Proclamation of the Irish Republic
Flag of the Irish Republic (left); Proclamation of the Irish Republic & signatories (right)
Patrick Pearse walking out of the GPO to surrender; capture of De Valera; execution
Appealing to women for recruiting for the British army in Ireland
’Ypres on the Liffey’: looking from O’Connell Street down North Earl Street towards Talbot Street The Grand Palace, Iper/Ypres, showing the damage so often compared with that of Dublin after the Easter Rising
Irish Guards in the trenches at Wytchaete, Belgium, 1916 A barricade erected by the rebels on St Stephen’s Green, Dublin
Battle of the Somme: soldiers from the Royal Irish Fusiliers taking a rest Battle of the Somme: one of the hundreds of casualty clearing stations behind the lines
Commemorating 1916 Top left: Island of Ireland Peace Tower, Mesen/Messines, Belgium, 1998 Bottom left: Irish National War Memorial, Islandbridge, Dublin, 1938 Top right: The Ulster Tower, memorial to 36th (Ulster) Division, Thiepval on the Somme, 1921 Bottom right: Memorial to the executed leaders of the Easter Rising, Arbour Hill Cemetery, Dublin, 1966
Linking past & present in loyalist & republican murals Top left: Whiterock Road, Belfast, 1991 Bottom left: New Lodge Rd, Belfast Top right: Albertbridge Road, Belfast, 1988 Bottom right: Craven St, Belfast, 1986