1916: Fight for Irish identity key to struggle for independence

Literature, Gaelic games, and Irish classes were all activities in the early 1900s of the young nationalists who would later rally around the Rebellion, writes John Gibney.

IT is stretching things too far to assume the Easter Rising was just a rebellion of poets and playwrights.

Many of those who fought were members of multiple organisations, and some of those who planned it dabbled in literature.