By Catriona Kennedy [full_width] [/full_width] That the rebellions of 1798 and 1803 provided the men of 1916 with a set of heroic exemplars is well documented. Figures like Theobald Wolfe Tone could be harnessed to the different political visions of the rising’s leaders: his death a model of republican sacrifice for … Continue reading The names that stilled her childish play: the women of 1916 and the women of ‘98