On a wall in the lobby of the Abbey, near the cloakroom, sits a discrete plaque, unveiled by Sean Lemass in 1966.  It commemorates the seven company members who downed tools to take up arms in the 1916 Rising. One of them, an actor named Sean Connolly, was the first Irish casualty of the Rising,… read more +

I wrote this piece on the run-up to the Lisbon campaign for Prospect Magazine in London, on Cóir and Ireland’s new culture wars.