How it came about: Clareville Day Centre invited its users to form a choir, and engaged Jessica Harris as musical director. In 2016, responding to a challenge by Dublin City Council to commemorate the events of 1916 in some way, the Centre called on the choir, in cooperation with the Invincibles, extra recruits from Claremont Court, and the good offices of Glasnevin Trust, to produce a CD of music, poetry and prose, to remember some of the important people buried in nearby Glasnevin Cemetery. The CD called "The Graves of Glasnevin" was the result.
Musical Director: Jessica Harris
Musicians: Mick Brophy (guitar), Noel Carroll (violin), Sean (Sam) Brophy (keyboard), Diarmuid Killeen (keyboard), Krunchie Killeen (whistle), John Cobbe (harmonica and bones), John Fallon (banjo, mandolin), Pat O'Neill (accordion).
Vocalists: Jennifer Brophy, Mick Brophy, Jessica Harris, Claire Jenkins, Christy McEvoy, Krunchie Killeen, Tomás Killeen, Angela Rooney, Jim Carr, John Cobbe, Wenda Edwards, Mairead McNamara, Máire Owens, Ruth Torode, Monica Walsh.
Peadar Kearney: the Soldier's Song
Peadar Kearney wrote the words of the Soldier's Song in 1907. Patrick Heeney helped with the composition of the music. It was very popular among the revolutionaries of the period, and was informally adopted as the National Anthem by the provisional Sinn Fein government in 1918. The Irish translation was written by Civil Servant, Liam Ó Rinn, and the Irish words became the official version.The Manchester Martyrs
William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin and Michael O'Brien were among a crowd of Fenian supporters that surrounded a police van in Manchester, effecting the escape of three Fenian prisoners who had planned a rebellion in Ireland. In course of the attack, a police officer was accidentally shot (he was peeping through a keyhole when a rescuer shot the lock). Multiple Irish people living in Manchester were arrested and roughly treated by the police. These three were among those selected for prosecution and were hanged for the crime, though they probably were not guilty of the murder (none of the three had fired the fatal shot). On the scaffold, they are reputed to have made patriotic proclamations, including "God Save Ireland." (Two others found guilty and sentenced to hang were, in fact, released).
The following is an extract on the matter from Wikipedia, (where the matter is dealt with in considerable detail):
The following is an extract on the matter from Wikipedia, (where the matter is dealt with in considerable detail):
The trial took place in what was described as a "climate of anti-Irish hysteria" by the weekly Reynold's Newspaper, which described it as a "deep and everlasting disgrace to the English government", the product of an ignoble panic which seized the governing classes. A yell of vengeance, it said, had issued from every aristocratic organ, and that before any evidence had been obtained the prisoners' guilt was assumed and their executions had been demanded.
Daniel O'Connell's letter to Queen Victoria
Arthur Griffith
Arthur Griffith, journalist and poet, founder of Sinn Fein, first President of the Irish Republic. His headstone is a broken pillar, indicating a premature death. We record "Twenty Men from Dublin Town" a song written by Arthur to arouse nationalist sentiment.
Charles Stewart Parnell
The second "uncrowned king of Ireland" (Daniel O'Connell being the first), many attempts were made to discredit him. One was an infamous set of forged letters (the Piggott forgeries) in which he apparently expressed support for the infamous Invincibles. What brought him down, however, was his sincere relationship with a married woman, Kitty O'Shea. His Irish home was at Avondale in County Wicklow, the Garden of Ireland, and we remember him in the song of that name.
The Cross of Sacrifice
Patrick Pearse's Oration at the Grave of O'Donovan Rossa
Edited to 5 minutes for the recording. Photos from National Library of Ireland.
Elizabeth O'Farrell
Kevin Barry
Kevin Gerard Barry (20 January 1902 – 1 November 1920) was the first Irish republican to be executed by the British since the leaders of the Easter Rising.Barry was sentenced to death for his part in an Irish Volunteers operation which resulted in the deaths of three British soldiers.
Barry's execution outraged nationalist public opinion in Ireland and its diaspora, largely because of his age. The timing of the execution, only days after the death by hunger strike of Terence MacSwiney, the republican Lord Mayor of Cork, brought public opinion to fever-pitch. His treatment and death attracted great international attention and attempts were made by U.S. and Vatican officials to secure a reprieve. His execution and MacSwiney's death precipitated a dramatic escalation in violence as the Irish War of Independence entered its bloodiest phase. Due to his refusal to inform, Barry became one of the most celebrated Irish republicans. (Wikipedia)
Barry's execution outraged nationalist public opinion in Ireland and its diaspora, largely because of his age. The timing of the execution, only days after the death by hunger strike of Terence MacSwiney, the republican Lord Mayor of Cork, brought public opinion to fever-pitch. His treatment and death attracted great international attention and attempts were made by U.S. and Vatican officials to secure a reprieve. His execution and MacSwiney's death precipitated a dramatic escalation in violence as the Irish War of Independence entered its bloodiest phase. Due to his refusal to inform, Barry became one of the most celebrated Irish republicans. (Wikipedia)
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