PICS: O’ Donovan Rossa Centenary: Spirit of renewal kindled by remembrance

It was moving, solemn, and dignified.

But the great-grandson of the man the State had gathered to remember at Glasnevin Cemetery on Saturday thought the commemoration of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa’s funeral was imbued with something else too — a sense of renewal.

“It’s as if the phoenix has risen again,” great-grandson Rossa Williams Cole told the Irish Examiner at the first official event to commemorate 1916.