Weekly Wrap-up (April 24, 2016)

Blog Posts

4/20/16:  L is for Liberty Hall

4/21/16:  M is for Countess Markievicz

4/24/16:  N is for National Anthem

4/24/16:  O is for On Banna Strand

4/24/16:  P is for Padraig Pearse

4/24/16:  Q is for the Quiet Man

Personal Stuff
Allergies are affecting my life recently.  My eyes hurt.  It makes it difficult to be on the computer, to draw or to read.  I have fallen behind in the A to Z challenge because of my allergies, but I am slowly catching back up.

What I read

I stopped reading The Art of X-Ray Reading by Roy Peter Clark.  It was an interesting book, but I was getting nowhere.  

    images from amazon.com    

Then I read Doodle Art Handbook and I am currently reading Ready Player One.

Interesting Stuff I Found on the Internet
R is for Rewrite - I love this comic posted by ARHtistic License.

I've been researching my A to Z Challenge topic, The Easter Rising of 1916.  I will post all my sources at the end of the month.


ROW80 Goals

1.  Read 9 books (1/9)

I read Doodle Art Handbook and now I am reading Ready Player One.

2.  Complete the A to Z Challenge on my two blogs/Continue with my blogging schedule

I have fallen behind on the challenge but I am catching back up.

3.  Edit 5 chapters of ZF

I have not started yet.

4.  Write daily

My allergies made this difficult this week.  I did not write every day.

5.  Continue my Creative Every Day challenge

The A to Z challenge is keeping me creative every day.  Also I have started the #100DayProject on Instagram which is helping me to be creative.

How did your week go?

Q is for the Quiet Man

A to Z Challenge 2016:  Easter Rising of 1916

2016 is the 100 year anniversary of this important moment in Irish history.  Join me throughout the month of April for an A to Z of the Easter Rising of 1916.

A is About the Easter Rising
B is for Boland's Mill
C is for Cumann na mBan
D is for Dublin Castle
E is for Enniscorthy
F is for The Foggy Dew
G is for General Post Office (GPO)
H is for Henry Street
I is for the Irish Republican Brotherhood
J is for Jacob's Biscuit Factory
K is for Kilmainham Gaol
L is for Liberty Hall
M is for Countess Markievicz
N is for National Anthem
O is for On Banna Strand
P is for Padraig Pearse

Q is for the Quiet Man

Arthur Shields, who played the Reverend Playfair in the John Wayne movie The Quiet Man, also participated in the Rising of 1916.

Arthur was an actor at the Abbey Theater in Dublin.  He had a rifle stashed under the stage, and when the Rising began, he grabbed the rifle and joined the men at the GPO.  He helped out with a radio broadcast about the Rising.  He was imprisoned after the surrender but was eventually released and continued with his acting career.

P is for Padraig Pearse

A to Z Challenge 2016:  Easter Rising of 1916

2016 is the 100 year anniversary of this important moment in Irish history.  Join me throughout the month of April for an A to Z of the Easter Rising of 1916.

A is About the Easter Rising
B is for Boland's Mill
C is for Cumann na mBan
D is for Dublin Castle
E is for Enniscorthy
F is for The Foggy Dew
G is for General Post Office (GPO)
H is for Henry Street
I is for the Irish Republican Brotherhood
J is for Jacob's Biscuit Factory
K is for Kilmainham Gaol
L is for Liberty Hall
M is for Countess Markievicz
N is for National Anthem
O is for On Banna Strand

P is for Padraig Pearse

Padraig Pearse, or Patrick Pearse, was one of the leaders of the Rising of 1916.  He wrote the Proclamation of Independence and read it from the steps of the GPO; he was leader of the Irish forces and he was a poet.

Pearse was interested in Irish culture and language from an early age.  He started a bilingual school, St. Edna's, which he used as a place to store weapons before the rising.  He also wrote poetry in Irish, like Mise Eire:

Mise Éire: Sine mé ná an Chailleach Bhéarra Mór mo ghlóir: Mé a rug Cú Chulainn cróga. Mór mo náir: Mo chlann féin a dhíol a máthair. Mór mo phian: Bithnaimhde do mo shíorchiapadh. Mór mo bhrón: D'éag an dream inar chuireas dóchas. Mise Éire: Uaigní mé ná an Chailleach Bhéarra.

I am Ireland: I am older than the old woman of Beare. Great my glory: I who bore Cuchulainn, the brave. Great my shame: My own children who sold their mother. Great my pain: My irreconcilable enemy who harrasses me continually... Great my sorrow That crowd, in whom I placed my trust, died. I am Ireland: I am lonelier than the old woman of Beare.

Padraig Pearse was executed for his role in the Easter Rising of 1916.

O is for On Banna Strand

A to Z Challenge 2016:  Easter Rising of 1916

2016 is the 100 year anniversary of this important moment in Irish history.  Join me throughout the month of April for an A to Z of the Easter Rising of 1916.

A is About the Easter Rising
B is for Boland's Mill
C is for Cumann na mBan
D is for Dublin Castle
E is for Enniscorthy
F is for The Foggy Dew
G is for General Post Office (GPO)
H is for Henry Street
I is for the Irish Republican Brotherhood
J is for Jacob's Biscuit Factory
K is for Kilmainham Gaol
L is for Liberty Hall
M is for Countess Markievicz
N is for National Anthem

O is for On Banna Strand

This song tells the story of Roger Casement, who was arrested before the 1916 Rising even started while trying to get weapons from the Germans on Banna Strand.  He was the only member of the rebels who was executed outside of Ireland, but was later returned to Ireland to be buried.

N is for National Anthem

A to Z Challenge 2016:  Easter Rising of 1916

2016 is the 100 year anniversary of this important moment in Irish history.  Join me throughout the month of April for an A to Z of the Easter Rising of 1916.

A is About the Easter Rising
B is for Boland's Mill
C is for Cumann na mBan
D is for Dublin Castle
E is for Enniscorthy
F is for The Foggy Dew
G is for General Post Office (GPO)
H is for Henry Street
I is for the Irish Republican Brotherhood
J is for Jacob's Biscuit Factory
K is for Kilmainham Gaol
L is for Liberty Hall
M is for Countess Markievicz

N is for National Anthem

Peadar Kearney, who fought during the Rising of 1916, wrote this English version of the Soldier's Song.  It was sung in the GPO during the rising.

The song was later translated to Irish, Amhrán na bhFiann, and chosen as the National Anthem of Ireland.

M is for Countess Markievicz

A to Z Challenge 2016:  Easter Rising of 1916

2016 is the 100 year anniversary of this important moment in Irish history.  Join me throughout the month of April for an A to Z of the Easter Rising of 1916.

A is About the Easter Rising
B is for Boland's Mill
C is for Cumann na mBan
D is for Dublin Castle
E is for Enniscorthy
F is for The Foggy Dew
G is for General Post Office (GPO)
H is for Henry Street
I is for the Irish Republican Brotherhood
J is for Jacob's Biscuit Factory
K is for Kilmainham Gaol
L is for Liberty Hall

M is for Countess Markievicz

Constance Gore-Booth was born in 1868 in London.  Her father was a philanthropist and a landlord in Ireland.  They lived in Sligo.  Constance became interested in Irish Nationalism and was inspired by William Butler Yeats, who later wrote a poem about her and her younger sister.  She married Count Casimir Dunin-Markievicz and became known as Countess Markievicz, although there is some debate as to whether she was an actual countess or not.

image source:  easter1916.ie

In 1903 she moved to Dublin and joined a number of nationalist groups.  She was appointed second-in-command at St. Stephen's Green during the 1916 Rising.  When the Countess surrendered, it is said that she kissed her revolver before handing it over to the British.  She was condemned to death after the rising, but the sentence was changed to life in prison because she was a woman.  She was later released from prison in 1917.

William Butler Yeats wrote this poem about the Countess and her younger sister:

In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz

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BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

The light of evening, Lissadell,

Great windows open to the south,

Two girls in silk kimonos, both

Beautiful, one a gazelle.

But a raving autumn shears

Blossom from the summer's wreath;

The older is condemned to death,

Pardoned, drags out lonely years

Conspiring among the ignorant.

I know not what the younger dreams –

Some vague Utopia – and she seems,

When withered old and skeleton-gaunt,

An image of such politics.

Many a time I think to seek

One or the other out and speak

Of that old Georgian mansion, mix

Pictures of the mind, recall

That table and the talk of youth,

Two girls in silk kimonos, both

Beautiful, one a gazelle.

Dear shadows, now you know it all,

All the folly of a fight

With a common wrong or right.

The innocent and the beautiful

Have no enemy but time;

Arise and bid me strike a match

And strike another till time catch;

Should the conflagration climb,

Run till all the sages know.

We the great gazebo built,

They convicted us of guilt;

Bid me strike a match and blow.

W. B. Yeats, "In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz" from The Winding Stair and Other Poems. Copyright © 1933 by W. B. Yeats.  Reprinted by permission of Scribner (Simon & Schuster, Inc.).

L is for Liberty Hall

A to Z Challenge 2016:  Easter Rising of 1916

2016 is the 100 year anniversary of this important moment in Irish history.  Join me throughout the month of April for an A to Z of the Easter Rising of 1916.

A is About the Easter Rising
B is for Boland's Mill
C is for Cumann na mBan
D is for Dublin Castle
E is for Enniscorthy
F is for The Foggy Dew
G is for General Post Office (GPO)
H is for Henry Street
I is for the Irish Republican Brotherhood
J is for Jacob's Biscuit Factory
K is for Kilmainham Gaol

L is for Liberty Hall

Liberty Hall was a base for the IRB before the Rising.  They stored weapons and made plans in this building.

The building was destroyed during the rebellion and has now been replaced by a 16 story Liberty Hall.