![]() ![]() Sen Nunan describes taking part in the rebellion in the GPO (RT, 1965). ![]() ![]() Rebels, soldiers, honorary Irishmen, sympathisers and exiles all held up a mirror, in verse, to the events, beliefs and desires bound up in 1916. A Terrible Beauty, Poetry of 1916, selected by Mairad Ashe FitzGerald (Dublin 2015) Watch. In the aftermath of the Rising an outpouring of poetry also expressed the shock and grief of literary figures such as Padraic Colum, Francis Ledwidge, Eva Gore-Booth, James Stephens, Dora Sigerson Shorter and Seán O’Casey. These include Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Joseph Plunkett, who were executed for their part in the Rising. Yeats’s poem, ‘Easter 1916’, sits alongside selected works of other major poets of the era. and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. The poetry that emerged at this time of upheaval in Ireland gave voice to the thoughts of a generation. WB Yeats’s poignant words have come to immortalise the complex legacy of the Easter Rising, 1916. ![]()
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