The Rising is usually celebrated on Easter Sunday/Monday, but, since this is the centennial, some are commemorating it on the actual calendar date on which it began, which is April 24.
I think the Jacobin piece is a pretty good historical summary, but gives somewhat short shrift to what was at the time, and has been ever since, the most controversial aspect of Easter Week for socialists: Connolly's decision to join the Rising on essentially the nationalist terms of the IRB, as opposed to his own socialist republican program. I don't know if I'd call Jimmy's Hall a masterpiece, and I certainly wouldn't call my Weekly Worker review definitive, but here it is, for what it's worth: http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1069/the-red-and-the-green/ Jim Creegan *********** Marv Gandall wrote: I?ve just finished watching Ken Loach?s latest masterpiece, Jimmy?s Hall, on Netflix and this excellent Jacobin article marking the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland makes an excellent companion piece. The article places the rising in its historical context - the forces which shaped it and the consequences which flowed from it.
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