It is the commemoration of the Easter Rising in Dublin. Although events are low key this year with Covid regulation Captain Marie Carrigy of the Irish Army reads the proclamation on the steps of the GPO:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1378677651242635264
Meanwhile at Áras an Uachtaráin President Mchael D Higgins lays a wreath not just for those who fell in 1916 but also to commemorate all who have died in the Covid outbreak:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1378675793354711040
Related links ‘The proclamation of the Irish Republic’:
https://en.wikipedia.org/…/Proclamation_of_the_Irish…
Image: Captain Marie Carrigy – Inset: Closing lines of Yeats poem ‘Easter 1916’.
Bernard Moffatt
Assistant General Secretary Celtic League (4th April 2021)
