1916 Portraits and Lives

This exhibition shows illustrations by David Rooney of 42 men and women whose lives, in one way or another, were deeply involved with the Easter rising of 1916 and were selected from the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography. The biographies selected compose an inclusively broad picture of the rising, representing the spectrum of personalities and perspectives that were involved in the event. They include not only the insurgents (and some others) killed during the rising but also some of the women who were involved as soldiers or in supporting capacities; three nationalist leaders who opposed the rising; some of the senior figures in the British administration in Ireland in 1916; members of the British army that suppressed the rising; and two historians who made considerable contributions to the scholarly debate on 1916. An accompanying book and limited edition prints are also available. For more information go to www.ria.ie. This exhibition is on display in the Belfast Room on the ground floor of the Ulster Museum.

Suitable for
Any age

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/ni000017?id=EVENT548893