W.B. Yeats\u2019s poignant words have come to immortalise the complex legacy of the Easter Rising, 1916. At this time of upheaval in Ireland, poetry gave voice to a generation. Yeats\u2019s poem \u2018Easter 1916\u2019 sits alongside selected works of other major poets of the era, including P\u00e1draic Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Joseph Plunkett, who were executed for their parts in the Rising.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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