There has been a tendency over the years to poke fun at the unofficial truce observed by both sides in the 1916 Rising to allow for the feeding of the ducks in St Stephen’s Green, with at least one recent newspaper article alluding to is as “a descent into farce.”

In this the year of the 1916 centenary the aspirations of the brave people behind the rebellion are the subject of scrutiny. Ideas abound as to how we should pay tribute to their heroic attempt to create a fairer Ireland.