Easter Rising Hats
Description: The Easter Rising in Dublin Ireland in 1916. The image is of the General Post Office (GPO) in Dublin where the leaders of the uprising made their last stand. Celebrate Irish Heritage. Commemorate the 1916 Easter Rebellion in Dublin. The Rising that led to Irish Independance in 1922. The Easter Rising in Dublin Ireland in 1916. The image is of the General Post Office (GPO) in Dublin where the doomed leaders of the uprising made their last stand. The uprising was the armed insurrection that started the process that eventually led to Irish Independence from Great Britain and the partition of the island of Ireland into the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Description: The Saint Patrick's Battalion (Spanish: Batallón de San Patricio, later reorganized as the Foreign Legion of Patricios), formed and led by John Riley, was a unit of 175 to several hundred (accounts vary) immigrants and expatriates of European descent who fought as part of the Mexican Army against the United States in the Mexican–American War of 1846–48. Most of the battalion's members had deserted or defected from the United States Army.
Description: The Clancy Brothers were an influential Irish folk group that initially developed as a part of the American folk music revival. Most popular in the 1960s, they were famed for their trademark Aran jumpers and are widely credited with popularising Irish traditional music in the United States and revitalising it in Ireland, paving the way for an Irish folk boom with groups like the Dubliners and the Wolfe Tones. The Clancy Brothers, Patrick "Paddy" Clancy, Tom Clancy, and Liam Clancy, are best known for their work with Tommy Makem, recording almost two dozen albums together as The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.
Description: Theobald Wolfe Tone, posthumously known as Wolfe Tone (20 June 1763 – 19 November 1798), was a leading Irish revolutionary figure and one of the founding members of the United Irishmen, a republican society that revolted against British rule in Ireland, where he was a leader going into the 1798 Irish Rebellion. He was captured at Lough Swilly, near Buncrana, County Donegal on 3 November 1798, and was sentenced to death on 19 November by hanging. He died seven days later in unclear circumstances. It has since been theorised and agreed upon by most Irish scholars that he committed suicide while in prison.
Description: The Starry Plough banner (Irish: An Camchéachta) is a flag which was originally used by the Irish Citizen Army, a socialist Irish republican movement, and subsequently adopted by other Irish political organizations. The original Starry Plough was designed by George William Russell for the Irish Citizen Army and showed silver stars on a green background. The flag depicts an asterism (an identified part) of the constellation Ursa Major, called The Plough (or "Starry Plough") in Ireland and Britain, the Big Dipper in North America, and various other names worldwide.
Description: Irish Rebel Padraig Pearse. Celebrate Irish Heritage. Commemorate the 1916 Easter Rebellion in Dublin. The Rising that led to Irish Independance in 1922. The Easter Rising in Dublin Ireland in 1916. The image is of the General Post Office (GPO) in Dublin where the doomed leaders of the uprising made their last stand. The uprising was the armed insurrection that started the process that eventually led to Irish Independence from Great Britain and the partition of the island of Ireland into the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
