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[FONT="]Got sent this by email, figured there might be a few on here interested in going along for a look.
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[FONT="]North Inner City Folklore Project, [/FONT][FONT="]Dublin[/FONT]
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[FONT="]North Inner City Folklore Project, [/FONT][FONT="]Dublin[/FONT]
[FONT="]COMMUNITY TRIBUTE TO ‘THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN’[/FONT]
[FONT="]OF 1916, THE TAN WAR AND THE CIVIL WAR:[/FONT]
[FONT="]EASTER MONDAY (24 MARCH), [/FONT][FONT="]DUBLIN[/FONT]
A WOMEN’S MOVEMENT and community activist in Dublin has called for a permanent memorial in the City Centre to the women who risked their lives for Irish freedom and equal rights.
Cathleen O’Neill said: “One thing often forgotten about the 1916 Proclamation and the Programme of the First Dáil in 1918 was the declaration of equal rights and equal opportunities for all citizens, a position well advanced beyond most of Europe at the time. Another thing that is regularly overlooked is the important role women played in the struggle for Irish independence and social progress. We remember those women but, so that other generations should be reminded, we are calling for a permanent memorial in the City Centre.”
[FONT="]Easter Monday schedule of events to honour ‘The Forgotten Women’:-[/FONT]
11:30 @ DublinCity Hall – Wreath laying
On Easter Monday morning, wreaths will be laid at the sites of the 1916 outlying garrisons with the last at City Hall laid at 11:30am by Constance Corcoran, whose mother, Molly O’Reilly, fought in the City Hall command.
12:00 @ Liberty Hall – Pageant and parade to GPO begins
Unfurling of the Citizen Army flag at Liberty Hall by Claire Ralph, re-enacting the honour given to Mollie O’Reilly by James Connolly. Event will include a colour party dressed in uniforms of Cumann na mBan and Citizen Army before parade led by pipers to the GPO.
13:00 @ GPO – Wreath laying and pipers’ lament
Wreaths laid by Constance Corcoran (daughter of Mollie O’Reilly) and Marian Steenson (daughter of Martha O’Kelly, GPO/Clery’s garrison). Two pipers will close ceremony.
q The North Inner City Folklore Project booklet, ‘The Forgotten Women’, to mark the occasion (price €5) which will be launched at Liberty Hall on Easter Monday.
