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On May 12, 1916, Easter Rising leader Seán Mac Diarmada was executed.
To commemorate the anniversary of the Easter Rising, writer and historian Dermot McEvoy produced 16 profiles of the Irish Rebel leaders who were executed and who, gradually, have come to be seen as heroes.
Seán MacDiarmada
Seán MacDiarmada was born in County Leitrim in 1884. He left home at a young age and traveled to Edinburgh and Belfast where he held many jobs, from tram conductor to barman. At 22, he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and set out on his lifelong quest to drive the English from Ireland. When Tom Clarke returned from America in 1907 and teamed up with MacDiarmada, Ireland finally had her own Dynamic Fenian Duo, two men capable of rousing Ireland out of its political coma.
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May 8, 1916, marks the day 1916 Easter Rising hero Con Colbert was executed. Dermot McEvoy looks back at his life story.Â
Cornelius (Con) Colbert was born in County Limerick in 1888 and educated at the Christian Brothersâ School in North Richmond Street, Dublin, the same school that produced Seán Heuston and Ãamonn Ceannt.
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Although short in stature, he made a big impression as he rose through the ranks, from the Fianna scouts to Captain of F Company, Fourth Battalion, Inchicore. His personal life was dominated by his Catholicism, his love of the Irish language, and his abstinence from alcohol. (When asked why Irish rebellions always failed, Colbert would reply: âDrink and want of discipline and loose talk.â)
From walking the beat to the WWI killing fields Dot Whittington tells the story of one of a large contingent of Irishmen who shaped the ranks of the Queensland police
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Subscriber only Stationed at Roma St in 1914, Irishman Patrick Devine had only a brief connection to the Queensland police force before signing up with the Australian Imperial Force and setting off to the battlefields of France. But although his time was short, it was significant - he was part of the migration of Irish policemen who filled and shaped the ranks of the Queensland police force, and one of the many who left active duty to join the AIF.
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