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INTRODUCTION 1 National Archives of Ireland, Department of the Taoiseach (hereafter cited as NAI DT), 97/6/162,T. Prendergast to Seán Lemass, 10 March 1966. 2 See David McKittrick, Séamus Kelters, Brian Feeney and Chris Thornton, Lost Lives:The Stories of the Men,Women and Children who Died as a Result of the Northern IrelandTroubles (Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company, 1999), p. 5. 3 David Trimble, The Easter Rebellion of 1916 (Lurgan: Ulster Society Publications, 1992), p. 33. 4 Ibid., pp. 33–4. 5 The Times (London), 28 April 1967, in Terence O’Neill, Ulster at the Crossroads (London: Faber & Faber, 1969), p. 125. 6 Terence O’Neill, The Autobiography ofTerence O’Neill (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1972), pp. 78 and 87. 7 Conor Cruise O’Brien, States of Ireland (Frogmore: Panther Books, 1974), p. 144. 8 Michael O’Loughlin in Dermot Bolger (ed.), Letters from the New Island (Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1991), p. 227. 9 This view has been placed under sceptical scrutiny by Declan Kiberd in ‘The Elephant of Revolutionary Forgetfulness’, in Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha and Theo Dorgan (eds), Revising the Rising (Derry: Field Day, 1991), pp. 1–19. 10 University College Dublin Archive, Fianna Fáil Archive (hereafter cited as UCDA FFA), P176/922, publicity pamphlet ‘President of the Nation’/‘Uachtarán an Náisiúin’; UCDA FFA, P176/922 (11), Notes for Speakers. 11 Northern Standard, 11 February 1966. 12 Ibid. 13 UCDA FFA, P176/922, O’Higgins election leaflet. 14 Northern Standard, 11 February 1966. 15 Alvin Jackson,‘Unionist History (i), Irish Review,Autumn 1989, p. 62. 16 CharlesTownshend, Easter 1916:The Irish Rebellion (London: Penguin Books, 2006), pp. 153–4. 17 Joost Augusteijn (ed.), The Memoirs of John M. Regan:A Catholic Officer in the RIC and RUC, 1909–48 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), p. 92 sited in Fearghal McGarry, The Rising: Ireland 1916 (Oxford University Press, 2010), p. 132. 225 Notes and References 18 Townshend, Easter 1916, pp. 181–6. 19 McGarry, The Rising, p. 41. 20 Ibid., pp. 286–7. 21 Ibid., p. 154. 22 Peter Hart, ‘The Fenians and the International Revolutionary Tradition’, in Fearghal McGarry and James McConnell (eds.), The Black Hand of Repubicanism: Fenianism in Modern Ireland (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2000), p. 199; Declan Kiberd, Inventing Ireland:The Literature of the Modern Nation (London:Vintage, 1996), p.203. 23 McGarry, The Rising, p. 8. 24 Ibid., p. 281. 25 Townshend, Easter 1916, p. 355. 26 Conor Cruise O’Brien, ‘The Embers of Easter 1916–1966’, in Owen Dudley Edwards and Fergus Pyle, 1916:The Easter Rising (London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968), p. 238. 27 David Lloyd, Ireland After History (Cork: Field Day, 1999), pp. 89–100. 28 Roisín Higgins,‘Remembering and Forgetting P.H. Pearse’, in Roisín Higgins and Regina Uí Chollatáin, The Life and After-Life of P.H. Pearse: Pádraic Mac Piarais: Saol agus Oidhreacht (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009), pp. 123–40. 29 Ibid., p. 129. 30 William Fallon in The Sunday Press, 14 April 1963. 31 ChicagoTribune, 1 May 1916. 32 F.X. Martin (ed.),‘Eoin MacNeill on 1916’, Irish Historical Studies, vol. 12, no. 47, 1960–1, pp. 226–71. 33 F.X. Martin,‘1916: Myth, Fact, and Mystery’, Studia Hibernia, vol. 7 (1967), p. 39. 34 F.X. Martin (ed.), Leaders of Men of the Easter Rising: Dublin 1916 (London and New York: Methuen, 1967), p. xi. For a discussion of Martin’s contribution to the historiography of the Easter Rising see Michael Laffan,‘The Decade of the Rising: F.X. Martin on 1916’, in Howard B. Clarke and J.R.S. Phillips, Ireland, England and the Continent in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Essays in Memory of a Turbulent Friar, F.X. Martin, OSA (Dublin: University College Dublin Press), pp. 325–32. 35 Marnie Hay, Bulmer Hobson and the Nationalist Movement inTwentieth-Century Ireland (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009), p. 244. 36 Max Caufield’s The Easter Rebellion (1963) is a readable but uncritical narrative of the Rising, while also continually popular was Brian O’Higgins’s The Soldier’s Story of EasterWeek (1925). 37 Leon Ó Broin, Dublin Castle and the 1916 Rising:The Story of Sir Matthew Nathan (Dublin: Helicon, 1966); Breandán Mac Giolla Choille (ed.), Intelligence Notes, 1913–1916 (Dublin: Oifig an tSoláthair, 1966). 38 F.X Martin, Leaders and Men of the Easter Rising: Dublin 1916 (London: Methuen, 1967). 39 Kevin B. Nowlan (ed.), The Making of 1916: Studies...

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