This is the first exhibition I’ve been to where the Prime Minister joined the hacks at the press view. A week after the Irish general election, the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, came to the biggest show in Ireland devoted to the centenary of the Easter Rising. Kenny’s presence at the press launch just goes to show how the Irish rebellion against British rule at Easter 1916 is still the defining story of modern Ireland.
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‘Proclaiming a Republic: The 1916 Rising’ is at the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin. Closed Mondays, except Easter Monday.
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