What’s going on in Ireland in April - 1916 Easter Uprising Commemoration, Centenary of the Titanic and much more

Those who participated the Easter Rebellion, 1916, and continued the struggle from 1919 to July, 1921, fought for full independence for "THE WHOLE IRISH NATION AND ALL ITS PARTS". Partition was imposed on Ireland in 1920, having been ruled by England as a single political entity for 7½ centuries. Historians, journalists, politicians and others of influence pretend that Irish independence was granted by the Anglo-Irish Treaty of Dec., 1921, and scarcely ever mention that one sixth of Ireland is still under British rule. Protestant patriots supported the fight for freedom, including the Mabel Washington O'Connell, an Ulster Presbyteriand and Gaelic League activist who in 1926 became the mother of future Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald.

I hope you realise Stevenstar that without the easter rising and the war of independence and 700 years of fenian tradition you would not have an Irish republic, not even your 2 thirds of Irish republic! Show some respect!

I wonder how many of the anti Irish negative posters on IC are Irish American??

I wist to tell Stevenstar that countess thousands U.S. citizens and residents proudly celebrate our Irish heritage on the 17th of March, as do millions who are many generations removed for the Emeradl Isle. I, for one, am not anti-British. In fact I was born in London. But as Loyal U.S. citizens, many of us also commemorate major events in the history of this country. Every Memorial Day I particate in the local village parade, side by side with my fellow Legionnaires, all of us having honorably served in the U.s. military. On 24 March I attended a St. Patrick's parade in a town 30 miles away, wearing a green tie and a Legionnaire's jacket and hat. A woman in the crowd kindly thanked me for my service. Then a female reported interviewed me and my wife (who is a D.A.R. member member) and mentioned our names on the front page of her newspaper. My wife is a New England Methodist, whose ancestors fought against G.B. in the late 1770s, and we are both VERY PROUD of our connections to the Irish nation, an tír uile agus gach roinn di.

Self entitlement is no entitlement at all stevenstar.Grow up Ciara and make some common sense,ancakver has got you and your west brit ilk covered a bunch of plastic Irish.You were probably spawned in a Smurfit plastics factory,I suppose that makes you Irish,I hope your biodegradable.

RRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!! You tell 'em Steven!

@@@@@@@pilib04 | Apr 01, 2012, 08:31 PM EDT i see westbrits Stevenstar and Bythebay are at it again>>>>>>>>>>> IM IRISH I LIVE IN IRELAND AND BORN HERE I THINK IM MORE ENTITLED THEN YOU TO COMMENT ON THAT MATE ..NAME CALLING AND YOUR DATED ATTITUDE ARE WAY OUT OF SYNC ... STAY IN AMERICA WHERE U BELONG AND KEEP YOUR COCKY REMARKS TO YOURSELF ..

And youre doing great there in another country! all piss and vinegar from the other side of the world! Fair play to you! Empty vessels make the most noise and you make more than most.

STEVEN: You and Ciara keep talking about having moved on? Moved on to what? You and Ciara and the rest of your moving on crowd, have made a fine mess of the place.

A real and present danger is that the centenary of the 1916 Rising in four years will be neutered so as not to offend the fluffy little Orange Order/Billy Boys up north whose neo-colonial egos are so easily offended by such liberationist militarism. And petit-bourgeois ideology inspired by the designer propaganda of partitionist press script writing about "moving on" does little to heal old wounds. For historically illiterate 30-somethings like ciaradexy! Patrick Pearse and James Connolly weren't members of Boyzone or Westlife. They were Irish patriots who won your freedom to be insufferably precocious and existentially unaware. And 1916 is much more than a minute after a quarter past seven in the evening.

I'm Irish born and I was in the military,the rest of your gobbledygook is not worth a reply Stevenfallingstar

I see westbrits Stevenstar and Bythebay are at it again.

My god you Americans seem to be more concerned about easter risings and been anti Britsish then WE IRISH ARE OURSELVES ... IM IRISH LIVE IN IRELAND AND BORN IN IRELAND ...it amazes me how you people keep DRAGGING UP THE PAST AND LIVING IN IT .. WHEN WE IRISH WHO LIVE HERE HAVE MOVED ON YEARS AND YEARS AGO .... For gods sake will you stop all this heroic easter rising stuff and wake upto Ireland like it is today in the year 2012 ...

There's are those in Ireland who would like to expunge the "rising from the annals of history.Over the years Fine Gael has minimised the the 1916 heroes and their contribution to Irish independence and they lead this charge to re-write history.

I'd like to know if any speaker at the G.P.O. cemebrations next Sunday will remind his listeners that the men and women of Easter, 1916, fought for full independence for "the whole nation and all its parts" (an tír uile agus gach roinn di). Some of us at this side of the pond would like to hear a mention of the 50 A.O.H. men who traveled from the U'S.to join the fight. Apparently these were older than the average volunteer and had little or no training, and Pearse didn't assignment them a mission in his original plan. I wonder how many of them survived the uprising. We should all remember that the contributions of the Irish in the U.S. is specially acknowledged in the Easter Proclamation: "...her exiled children in America".