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1916 in 2016: personal reflections of an Irish historian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2018

Diarmaid Ferriter
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Irish Historical Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 161 , May 2018 , pp. 161 - 174
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Footnotes

Editors’ note: This article, and the preceding one by Alvin Jackson, were commissioned. The authors were invited to reflect on the manner in which the Easter Rising of 1916 has been interpreted and commemorated.

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2 ibid.

3 ibid.

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5 1916/2016: Clár comórtha ceád bliain: centenary programme (Dublin, 2015) p. 5.

6 ibid., pp 50–4.

7 Irish Times, 22 Jan. 2016.

8 For other views, see Diarmaid Ferriter, ‘The 1916 proclamation has many uses and misuses’ in Irish Times, 12 Mar. 2016.

9 ibid.

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31 ibid.

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58 Ibid.

59 ibid.

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