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Ah now.

This morning.

Grangegorman Military Cememetery, Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin 7

A protestor apprehended by have-a-go Canadian Ambassador to Ireland Kevin Vickers, a former Mountie, at the State Ceremonial event to remember the British soldiers who died during the Easter Rising, 1916.

Grangegorman Military Cemetery is where many of the soldiers are buried.

Vickers has some form.

Update:

Meanwhile…

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How tall?

Kevin Vickers and President Higgins at his investiture as Canadian Ambassador to Ireland last year.

Pics: Cian O’Sullivan, Sam Boal/Rollingnews

Meanwhile…

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The remix.

RadioIreland writes:

Quick, before it gets taken down because of multiple copyright infringements!

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Soldiers from Nottingham, England-based regiment – the Sherwood Foresters – on Northumberland Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin, April 26, 1916.

So callow they thought they were in the Western front.

John Gallen writes:

[A poppy wreath dedicated to the members of one British Army regiment who lost their lives during 1916 has been removed]. It seems the Battle of Mount Street Bridge is still raging on….Beggars belief that these anyone would desecrate a memorial of 1916.
But at the same time, it’s a typical republican attitude of ‘our way or no way’ and trying to destroy any reparations between our two nations that the rest of us, the vast majority, try to encourage…

Gulp.

Tribute To 1916 British Soldiers Removed (Irish Times)

Previously: Dazed In The Hood

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Radio Times reports:

It was 100 years ago today that the first radio broadcast took place from Dublin, and stations across the Republic are marking the occasion on-air.

At 5.30pm – the exact time of the first morse code transmission on April 25th 1916 – IBI and RTÉ radio stations will come together to air a special feature on the birth of a nation, and the beginning of radio.

It’s an 80-second morse code themed radio experience titled “The Sound of Sixteen” which imagines the battling sounds and dangerous atmosphere of the times.

Stations unite for the Sound of Sixteen (Radio Time)

The Sound of Sixteen

Thanks Boys & Girls

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Apparently so.

Wrecking the Rising – a new three part drama series from Tile Films filmed at a full sized GPO set constructed inside a hanger at Galway airport. To wit:

The series follows three modern-day Irishmen, Ernest (Owen McDonnell – An Klondike / Single Handed), Tom (Sean T. Ó Meallaigh – The Callback Queen /Vikings) and Seán (Peter Coonan – Love/Hate [currently narrating RTE’s Inside The GPO series]), who endure listless and unexciting lives living in Dublin. Their only enjoyment comes from staging re-enactments of the Easter Rising. After being mysteriously transported back in time to 1916 they cause a huge blunder that has the potential to wreck the Easter Rising before it has even begun. Somehow they must keep history on course – and figure out a way to return to the future.

Wrecking the Rising: TG4, 9.30pm on three consecutive nights from Saturday 23rd to Monday 25th April, 2016

(Thanks Catherine)

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This morning/afternoon.

Cobh Animation Team (‘Bringing the women of Ireland’s past to life’) dressed in 1916-era fashions at Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

Shawl where would you get it?

Shawl.

Suit yourselves.

Cobh Animation Team (Facebook

Update:

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We’ll have none of your Mnásplaining, thank you very much.

Harrumph.

Sam Boal/Rollingnews