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<H2><a href="http://www.indymedia.ie/article/105822">Join The 1916 People's Parade to St Enda's Rathfarnham -home of Pearse</a></H2>
Dublin | History and Heritage | By D1916 People's Parade Email : ds1916centenary@gmail.com <h4>Event Time: Monday, May 2 2016</h4>
<P>On Bank Holiday Monday, May 2, 2016 - on the eve of the one hundredth<br />
anniversary of Patrick Pearse's execution - the people of Ballinteer,<br />
Rathfarnham, Dundrum, Sandyford and the wider South Dublin <br />
community will come together for a '1916 People's Parade' - to<br />
remember and celebrate the lives of the Pearse brothers and all those<br />
who fought for Irish freedom during the 1916 Rising.</P><P>Before the break of dawn on the morning of May 3rd, 1916, Patrick Pearse<br />
was taken from his cell to the Stonebreaker's Yard in Kilmainham Jail to<br />
face a British firing squad. Within minutes the thirty-six year old poet,<br />
teacher, writer, Irish language activist and revolutionary was dead.<br />
Twenty-four hours later Willie Pearse was marched into the same yard <br />
to face the same fate as his brother.<br />
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Less than two weeks earlier the Pearse brothers had left their family<br />
home in St Enda's, Rathfarnham for the last time. Three other teachers<br />
from St Enda's -Plunkett, MacDonagh and Colbert -were also to die in<br />
the Stonebreakers Yard.<br />
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On Bank Holiday Monday, May 2, 2016 - on the eve of the one hundredth<br />
anniversary of Patrick Pearse's execution - the people of Ballinteer,<br />
Rathfarnham, Dundrum, Sandyford and the wider South Dublin <br />
community will come together for a '1916 People's Parade' - to<br />
remember and celebrate the lives of the Pearse brothers and all those<br />
who fought for Irish freedom during the 1916 Rising.<br />
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The 1916 People's Parade, which is supported by Dun Laoghaire <br />
Rathdown Council, is a family-friendly, non-party political event that is<br />
open to all. The parade will assemble in the carpark of St John the<br />
Evangelist Church, Ballinteer at 2pm, before making its way along the<br />
Grange Road to St Enda's. The parade will conclude with a <br />
commemorative ceremony featuring poetry and song in St Enda's.<br />
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This is a genuine once in a lifetime event that cannot be missed.<br />
Come along and bring your family and friends. Bigi linn.<br />
<br />
www.facebook.com/DUBLINSOUTH1916CC<br />
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<p><small>posted on: Thursday, Apr 28 2016, 8:48am</small></p>
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