Category Archives: Irish poetry

“A Terrible Beauty Is Born”

Posted on May 15, 2014 by jpkenna

  General Sir John Maxwell’s decision to quash even the thought of rebellion in Ireland–by sending 16 men to the firing squad, mostly young men, among them poets and teachers–had the unintended consequence of shifting world opinion of the 1916 … Continue reading →

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A Prelude to the Easter Rising, 1916. Pt. 2

Posted on April 21, 2014 by jpkenna

 28-year-old Mary Scanlon continues her narrative letter of March 31, 1916, to her brother Mike in Seattle. With longtime family associate Steve O’Hanlon, she is in the office of John Devoy–New York-based Irish revolutionary. An imminent uprising against British rule … Continue reading →

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