This year marks the 110th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. TOM GALLAHUE and ROBERT POOLE from Educators for a United Ireland discuss the role played by the Irish diaspora, and why the Rising remains relevant today
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THIS weekend clergy will be informing their congregations that there is more to Easter than chocolate eggs and bunnies.
No doubt they would prefer their congregations, politicians and the public to focus on the suffering of Jesus and the meaning of his death by crucifixion.
And perhaps our hypothetical clergy have a point. The earliest traditions about Jesus that gave rise to the Easter story suggest that he was brutally killed because of overturning the tables of the moneychangers and dove-sellers in the Jerusalem Temple.
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