Library invites community to program on centenary of Ireland's Easter Rising

12:59 p.m., April 19, 2016--The University of Delaware Library has announced that an event commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin will take place on Sunday, April 24, at the Morris Library in conjunction with the Special Collections exhibition “‘A terrible beauty is born’: The Easter Rising at 100.”

Featuring curator’s remarks and Bernard McKenna, associate professor of English, and John Montaño, professor of history), the event will be held from 12:30-2 p.m. in the Class of 1941 Lecture Room in the Morris Library. Light refreshments will be available.

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Shortly after noon on April 24, 1916, Pádraig Pearse emerged from the newly formed headquarters of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic at Dublin’s General Post Office. A small band of republicans’ brief insurrection over Easter Week 1916 resulted in their declaration of independence from Great Britain to form the Irish Republic (Poblacht na hÉireann). 

Quickly and violently squashed by the British, the Easter Rising became a defining moment for the complex landscape of Irish culture, politics, and history in the 20th century. 

The Special Collections exhibition “’A terrible beauty is born’: The Easter Rising at 100” commemorates the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising through an examination of events and attitudes before and after the events of Easter Week 1916, including the Gaelic Revival, the rise of Irish Nationalism, the War of Independence (1917-21), the Civil War (1922-23), and Irish literature produced in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland during The Troubles in the latter half of the 20th century.

The event is open to the public. The Special Collections gallery will be open from 2-3:30 p.m. for additional viewing of the exhibition. 

A digital version of the exhibition may be viewed online.