On May 3, 1916, the first of the executions were held for the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising. Padraig Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, and Thomas Clarke were executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Jail.
Trevor Ringland’s narrow view on the troubled history of our partitioned country (August 18) and who was responsible for what is symptomatic of the deeper-lying problems we face as a society.