Ireland: Branch Urge Film Makers to Eschew Revisionism

September 16, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE As part of the Dublin government’s centenary celebrations a three part television documentary series, ‘1916: The Irish Rebellion’, produced by Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, will be broadcast worldwide during the centenary next year. This series,

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Challenging The Revisionists Who Try To Re-write Irish History

August 24, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE As we move closer to the centenary commemorations of the Irish 1916 Rising there has been increased interest in the British colonial presence in Ireland. Not least has been the rise of those journalists and academics who have

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Forgotten Patriot of 1916 to Get State Funeral

August 15, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Thomas Kent often referred to as the ‘forgotten patriot’ of 1916 is to be afforded a full state funeral after remains buried at Cork Prison were confirmed to be his following DNA testing Kent was a prominent Irish

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