With a pair of copies of the Waterford Whispers buke (above) to give away, we asked: create a Waterford Whispers style headline for the Easter Rising, 1916.
You answered in your dozens.
Runners up:
Perry Throne: Men Disguised As Train Stations Raid Local Post office
FormelyKnownAsIreland: Postal Deliveries Will Be Delayed, Next Week
Liam Zero: At Least 650,000 Rebels Holed Up In GPO Amid Battles With British Forces
Pow3r: The Easter Rising Was An Inside Job
Forty Coats: Rebel Youth Wing issues communiqué on Proclamation: “TL;DR”
Winners (selected by WW):
Paul Murphy: Michael Collins Body Exhumed as part of 1916 Centenary Celebrations And put On Display In Coppers Cloakroom
Kolmo: Locals Object To 700 years Of English Stag Parties in Dublin.
Thanks all.
Previously: Putting Waterford On The Map
My fave was ‘GOTCHA!’.
Cheers, Hoop.
I should have added that a photo of the burning GPO would be shown, and a line like this
“‘Our lads sink GPO and hole biscuit factory”
as used in the original front page:
https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/gotcha/
+1
Tabloidism at its truest.
Fair play… didn’t want one anyway
* kicks bauble off tree, throws train set against the wall, spreads last nights fire’s ashes all over the sitting room floor, sulks, rearranges all the baubles on tree to own liking before anyone sees *
There were some great entries — I like the Perry Throne and Forty Coats ones. More of this, please.
+1
And nobody mentioned Constant Markievicz. Shame.
He WAS mentioned – read ’em again…
Whoops! My Constant craving missed that.
Maybe a great magnet pulled your eyes away from it?
I did! Some man for one man!