Scotland and the Easter Rising
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Scotland and the Easter Rising

Fresh Perspectives on 1916

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Scotland and the Easter Rising

Fresh Perspectives on 1916

About this book

The story of the Rising is still being told, and in these pages the reader will find much to ponder, much to discuss, and much to disagree with. From the Introduction by Kirsty Lusk and Willy Maley On Easter Monday 1916, leaders of a rebellion against British rule over Ireland proclaimed the establishment of an Irish Republic. Lasting only six days before surrender to the British, this landmark event nevertheless laid the foundations for Ireland's violent path to Independence. It is little known that James Connolly, one of the rebellion's leaders, was born in Edinburgh's Cowgate, at the time nicknamed 'Little Ireland', or that another key figure in the events of Easter 1916 was a young woman from Coatbridge, Margaret Skinnider. These and other surprising Scottish connections are explored in Scotland and the Easter Rising, as Kirsty Lusk and Willy Maley gather together a rich grouping of writers, journalists and academics to examine, for the first time, the Scottish dimension to the events of 1916 and its continued resonance in Scotland today. ALLAN ARMSTRONG • RICHARD BARLOW • IAN BELL • ALAN BISSETT • JOSEPH M. BRADLEY • RAY BURNETT • STUART CHRISTIE • HELEN CLARK • MARIA-DANIELLA DICK • DES DILLON • PETER GEOGHEGAN • PEARSE HUTCHINSON • SHAUN KAVANAGH • BILLY KAY • PHIL KELLY • AARON KELLY • JAMES KELMAN • KIRSTY LUSK • KEVIN MCKENNA • WILLY MALEY • NIALL O'GALLAGHER • ALISON O'MALLEY-YOUNGER • ALAN RIACH • KEVIN ROONEY • MICHAEL SHAW • IRVINE WELSH • OWEN DUDLEY EDWARDS Featuring a mix of memoir, essays, poetry and fiction this book provides a thought-provoking and necessary negotiation of historical and contemporary Irish-Scottish relations, and explores the Easter Rising's intersections with other movements, from Women's Suffrage to the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum.

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Information

Publisher
Luath Press
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781910324790
Topic
History
Subtopic
Social History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. SER smallcaps converted
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Timeline
  8. Introduction: Remembering the Rising
  9. To Shake the Union: The 1916 Rising, Scotland and the World Today
  10. The Shirt that was on Connolly: Sorley MacLean and the Easter Rising
  11. Connolly and Independence
  12. A Terrible Beauty
  13. Who Fears to Speak?
  14. ‘They will never understand why I am here’: The irony of Connolly’s Scottish connections
  15. Anti-imperialist Insurrection
  16. Commemorating Connolly in 1986
  17. The Behans: Rebels of a Century
  18. After Easter
  19. Margaret Skinnider and Me
  20. A Beautiful Thing Wronged
  21. Home Rule, Sinn Féin and the Irish Republican Movement in Greenock
  22. Homecoming
  23. James Connolly’s Stations
  24. A Slant on Connolly and the Scotch Ideas
  25. Short Skirts, Strong Boots and a Revolver: Scotland and the Women of 1916
  26. Irish Kin under Scottish Skin
  27. ‘Pure James Connolly’: From Cowgate to Clydeside
  28. ‘Mad, Motiveless and Meaningless’? The Dundee Irish and the Easter Rising
  29. MacLean in the Museum: James Connolly and ‘Àrd-Mhusaeum na h-Èireann’
  30. ‘Scotland is my home, but Ireland my country’: The Border-Crossing Women of 1916
  31. To Rise for a Life Worth Having
  32. ‘Let the People Sing’: Rebel Songs, the Rising, and Remembrance
  33. Before the Rising: Home Rule and the Celtic Revival
  34. ‘Hibernian’s most famous supporter
  35. Scotland 2015 and Ireland 1916
  36. Contributors
  37. Endnotes