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Mrs Foster and the rebels: Irish unionist approaches to the Easter Rising, 1916–2016

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2018

Alvin Jackson
Alvin Jackson*
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University of Edinburgh
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*School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, alvin.jackson@ed.ac.uk
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Irish Historical Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 161 , May 2018 , pp. 143 - 160
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Footnotes

Editors’ note: This article, and the subsequent one by Diarmaid Ferriter, 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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87 Jeffery, Keith, The GPO and the Easter Rising (Dublin, 2006), p. 165 Google Scholar. Early versions of this paper were delivered to audiences at Churchill College, Cambridge University, the University of Westminster and Boston College in March and April 2016. A later draft was delivered as the Learned Society of Wales lecture at the University of Aberystwyth’s 1916 event in September 2016. I am most grateful to Eugenio Biagini, Patrick Smylie, Oliver Rafferty S.J., and Paul O’Leary for their invitations and comments.