A section of the crowd at the 2011 commemoration.
CHTM report of 2010 North Inner City Folklore Project commemoration.
CHTM report of 2011 North Inner City Folklore Project commemoration.
Each year, the North Inner City Folklore Project mark the anniversary of the Easter Rising by erecting a plaque in the inner city, marking the contribution of their community to the period. It’s an important job, but only one part of what the Project does, and its collecting of oral testimonies from inner-city Dubliners will prove priceless in years to come. It is history from the bottom up, and anyone curious about the project will enjoy a recent audio interview I conducted with Terry Fagan about its work.
This year on Easter Monday the North Inner City Folklore Project will be unveiling a plaque to Sean Heuston, who was born in 1891 at Lower Gloucester Street, now Seán MacDermott Street. The event is non-party political, and begins at 12 noon at Liberty Hall with the raising of the flag. The statement from the Project in advance of the commemoration is below:
5 April 2012
EASTER MONDAY MORNING (12 NOON, 9 APRIL) EVENT TO MARK THE 1916 EASTER RISING
(NON-PARTY POLITICAL)
Unveiling of plaque to Captain Seán Heuston,
Irish Volunteers, 1916ON EASTER MONDAY, the Dublin North Inner City Folklore Project is honouring local man Irish Volunteer Captain Seán Heuston who was born in 1891 at Lower Gloucester Street now (Seán MacDermott Street). Heuston was executed by a British military firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol on 8 May 1916 at the age of 25.
The event will open at 12 noon with a re-enactment of the hoisting of the Citizen Army flag at Liberty Hall in 1916 by James Connolly and a young 14-year-old girl from Gardiner Street, Molly O’Reilly.
This will be recreated Easter Monday by the grandson of James Connolly, James Connolly-Herron, and Molly O’Reilly’s niece, Ciara Gallagher. A colour party in the period uniforms of the Citizen Army and Cumann na mBan will accompany them.
The crowd will then parade to Lower Seán MacDermott Street led by pipers and people carrying photographs of the leaders of the Easter Rising.
At 1pm, at Lower Seán MacDermott Street, facing Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Constance Corcoran (daughter of Molly O’Reilly, whose mother was a member of the City Hall garrison) and Mrs Steenson (whose mother was a member of the GPO/Clery’s garrison) will unveil the plaque to Seán Heuston.Two children from the area will lay wreaths at the spot.
After a lament by the pipers, there will be a 1916-1922 photographic exhibition, in a nearby community hall.
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Donal
Ciarán
Sam
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My grandfather, Ned Keogh, was a member of the ICA – he was in Liberty Hall on Easter Sunday night and was part of the St Stephen’s Green rising on Easter Monday – he used to guard the members of the ICA when they were having meetings – I have a hand written account by him of what happened in Liberty Hall on Easter Sunday – I think he could be in the photograph of the four ICA members on the roof of Liberty Hall but cannot say for sure – does anyone know for certain who these four members are
Helen, that account is a really fantastic thing to have.
Joseph Byrne
Chris Poole
Philip Lacey
Pat Fox
Are the four names listed in Lorcan Collin’s biography of James Connolly, where the image features.
Hi There
Philip Lacey (Brabazon Street 1911 Census) was my Great Grandmothers Brother In Law.
Does anyone know if this is one and the same chap that is in the image ?
If so, does anyone know which chap in the image is him ?
Tara
Excellent interview
This is a set of photos from the 2012 commenration (that I thought I posted already)
http://photobucket.com/Plaque2012
Cheers FXR. Couldn’t make it this year with work which meant no write-up sadly.
That’s a shame DF. It went very well all in all. Noel Hughes was at it as well. That man has a memory like a bank of computers. I got a short video of him talking about the Magdalene laundry on Sean McDermot street. He use to deliver fruit and veg there when he was a god forbid.
Hi tara
my grandfather was philip lacey and i have some info on him , but im unsure which of the four he is.
My grandfather is In the photo. He is the first one on the left & Philip Lacy is third from the left.
Noreen Byrne
Thanks Noreen for the info. It took awile but I was able to id 4 of the lads on the roof. The extended family had no photos of him as we are lead to believe he was a sniper so was very camera shy.