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Examining the origins of the 1916 Proclamation

Padraig2As part of the Clare 1916 Centenary Group lecture series one of Clare’s leading historians, Dr. Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc will give a lecture in Ennis this Friday.

Entitled ‘Proclaiming a Republic – the origins of the 1916 Proclamation’, the lecture takes place at The Railway Bar, Ennis at 7:30pm. Dr. Ó Ruairc will look at how Patrick Pearse, James Connolly and the other leaders of the 1916 Rising who wrote the Proclamation were inspired by previous Proclamations written by the United Irishmen in 1798 and the Fenians in 1867.

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It will also examine the place that the 1916 Proclamation has in modern Irish politics and culture and will ask how relevant the document is to the lives of Irish people today.

To mark the centenary of the 1916 Rising, Pádraig has recently released a new book The Men Will Talk To Me – Clare Interviews. This book contains five, never before published, interviews of Clare Republicans who fought in the War of Independence and Civil War.

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