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We are still living with the consequences of the Rising

We are still living with the consequences of the Rising. Detractors of Pearse and James Connolly argue that Ireland could have gained its independence by peaceful means in due course. Picture by Niall Carson, Press Association 
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WILLIAM Butler Yeats wrote after the Rising that "Too long a sacrifice/Can make a stone of the heart". These and other lines from his great poem, Easter 1916, are very much in vogue at present, as part of a centenary commemoration that has been sober, thoughtful, respectful and very balanced in its approach. Like others in his day, no doubt, Yeats was inclined to dismiss Patrick Pearse and his associates as harmless eccentrics. Easter Week changed all that and things were never the same again. As Yeats himself put it, a terrible beauty was born. We are still living with t[...]
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