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Any suggestion that the “airbrushing” of the 1916 Padraig Pearse surrender photograph was done to exclude Elizabeth O’Farrell from the image, because she was a woman, is not true. (‘Painting of woman airbrushed from GPO Rising surrender unveiled in Seanad to mark International Women’s Day”, Independent.ie, March 8).
Elizabeth O’Farrell stated in a later interview that she decided to step back when she became aware that a British Army officer was taking a photograph. She was obscured, apart from her feet, by Pearse in the resulting image. So, in fact, there is no image of O’Farrell on the original negative to begin with. ....

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