good that the people of Ireland commemorate those valiant rebels...their bravery really got the ball rolling..it took a few more years, but independence was ultimately achieved..
@Helen Betts; it's unusual for Mairéad to miss including commentary in her postings (I suspect she'll come back to it when she's able) but I'm betting on it being one of two things: (a) Either a bespectacled 1980's Scottish band declaring that "(they) would walk five huuundred miiiles"; or, probably more likely now that I think of it, (b) A commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Easter 1916 Irish uprising, which included a proclamation of the Irish republic. (Not that proclaiming it immediately made it so, of course, but it set the wheels in motion to a greater extent than they had been.)
Of course there's nothing to say that it couldn't be a combination of the two.
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