Terry Prone: GPO Museum communicates how memory of Easter Rising evolved

Those currently in charge of our GPO are pulling out all the stops to make the 1916 Rising come alive for today’s Irish citizens and visitors to our capital city

Captain Austin Doyle with the Proclamation of Independence following a ceremony at the GPO on O’Connell St in Dublin to mark the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in 2023. Picture: Brian Lawless/ PA

No other building in any of our cities gets quite the annual boost that Easter Week gives to the General Post Office (GPO). 

We notice it all over again as stills from its destruction in 1916 run in media, as will happen again this year because this is the 110th anniversary of the Easter Rising.