Easter Week, 1916, Ireland :
Irish men and women had armed themselves and, once again, thrown down the gauntlet to Westminster. Gun-battles, ambushes, snipers, hand-to-hand fighting...but not in one county.
The Irish Republican leadership in that particular county had incredibly made a deal - come to an agreed arrangement - with the British military and political leadership not to shoulder a weapon. Except to hand it over to them.
And not only that - they had agreed to travel within British-imposed boundaries they accepted, on specially-issued British 'safe passport papers', to persuade other (?!) Irish rebels to do the same.
It's a shameful episode in our history, but it shouldn't be forgotten and we'll be remembering it on Wednesday, 1st May 2024, on this blog.
Altogether, we'll be publishing a 24-part blog on that Wednesday, the above 'Easter story' being just one of them.
Thanks for the visit, and for reading : hope to see you on Wednesday, 1st May 2024.
Sharon and the team.
