The last remaining person in the U.S. to have fought in the 1916 Rising in Ireland died in Seattle, Washington, at the age of 99 on January 21, 1996. Elizabeth "Lily" Kempson McAlerney, who threatened a man at gunpoint when he wanted to leave the scene of the fighting, was exiled to the U.S. when
Joyce Kilmer’s moving interview with Moira Regan who served as a runner between the leaders during the 1916 Rising. The young woman gives an eyewitness account of her experience at the GPO.
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One of the more obscure, and tragic, stories of Easter Week concerns Abraham Weeks (sometimes also known as “Wix”), a London Jew on the run who found himself in Dublin just as Easter Week was beginning. Weeks was not the first Jew to fight for Irish freedom.