This morning.
Leinster House, Dublin 2
Thomas Clarke (right) with Ronnie O’Brien in a replica carriage and horse to commemorate the centenary of the Sinn Féin landslide election of December 14, 1918, and recreate an iconic image of that day (above).
Update:
The new breed of Sinn Féin TDs and senators join the commemoration.
Where’s Jarvey Adams?
Jarvey.
I’ll get my cloth cap.
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(Out of shot): Máiría Capall.
RTE have managed all day when discussing this programme tonight not to mention the words Sinn Fein.
Ivana Bacik managed to avoid those two words in the Irish Times’s Vótáil 100 issue this week too, despite been given the lead feature.
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/ivana-bacik-we-need-to-hold-true-to-the-feminist-ideals-of-the-suffragists-1.3697401
“Labour Party Senator for Dublin University”
What exactly is the relationship of SF today to SF of 1921, apart from the name?
its like homeopathy or the memory of water diluted millions of times
…well…they were both abstensionist for a start…you know…got a sweeping mandate on the basis that they would not take their seats…
What bigx said.
Ah, would you look at them there in the last pic, holding wrapped Christmas gifts? Is it true they all contain bolt cutters?
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/disappointed-but-not-surprised-sinn-fin-activist-caught-cutting-down-fine-gael-poster-with-boltcutters-37209602.html
https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/gerry-kelly-explains-those-bolt-14248535