Being not so ‘green’ about past helps us with our present

We’ll need our humour and a balanced reading of our history this Easter to negotiate a path through the treacherous waters of commemoration. Let’s hope we can also make room for the voices of the children of the centenary of the Rising, writes Clodagh Finn.

It’s a tricky time, suspended as we are today between the green-flaggery of St Patrick’s Day and the commemoration, next week, of the defining moment in our nation’s struggle for independence, Easter 1916.

History is dealing us a very heavy hand and it’s almost impossible to be solemn enough, momentous enough, dignified enough, to celebrate what it means to be Irish in an appropriate manner.