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thenightling · 2 years

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Sandman Easter Eggs

Real Easter Eggs in The Sandman Netflix series that have been noticed so far:

Warning there are spoilers in this list.

1. The Key to Hell (a major plot point in The Sandman: Season of Mists) is a sigil in the binding circle that holds Morpheus.

2. Gregory dying and little Goldie hatching may be foreshadowing for a certain comic storyline.

3. The little flowers that sprouted up when Gregory was uncreated are very similar to the red flowers that formed from the dripping blood on Morpheus's hands when he had to euthanize his son in The Sandman: Brief Lives.

4. (This was in the comics). Judy's ex is Donna AKA Foxglove, a major character in The Sandman: A game of you.

5. Gault's name might be an attempt to merge Brute and Glob's names together. The characters she replaced. Obviously they wouldn't use Groot.

6. The name of John Constantine's punk band is on a poster in episode 3. 7. The mad Mod witch is also on a poster in episode 3.

8. Mike Dringenberg is an artist for The Sandman comics. You will see a sign behind the Corinthian when he talks to Nimrod, The Good Doctor, and Funland. The sign reads "Mike's Drinks and Burgers."

9. The carvings on the gates of horn tell the story of Morpheus and Alianora and how he got his helm. They are exact replicas of the panels from The Sandman: Overture. There are two sets of gates in the Realm of Dreams (The gates were originally referenced in Homer's The Odyssey). One set of gates made of horn, and one set of gates made of ivory. The dreams that pass through the gates made of ivory are false and deceptive. The dreams that pass through the gates made of horn are true, whether literally or metaphorically. Morpheus prefers to use the horned gates so the ones you see him push open are the ones made of horn.

10. When Morpheus leaves The Corinthian in the first episode he is fully clothed. When he is summoned his clothing are gone and his helm is beaten up. This is because the events of The Sandman: Overture have happened in what was for us just a few seconds.

11. This is more trivia than anything. Squatterbloat is now being used for his original purpose of gatekeeper and guide. The guide in the comics was the rhyming demon, Etrigan. Rhyming is a sign of status among some demons and they do it with pride.

12. The episode Imperfect Hosts is pun on the fact that Cain, Abel, Lucien (now Lucienne), Destiny, Even (who hasn't appeared in the show yet), Mad Mod Witch (who hasn't appeared in the show), and The Three Witches (Hecate, Fates, Furies) were all old horror hosts. They hosted the DC Horror anthology comics similar to Tales from the Crypt. Cain hosted The House of Mystery. Abel hosted The House of Secrets. Lucien hosted Tales of Ghost Castle. The Three Witches hosted The Witching Hour. This pun existed in the comics as well. 13. After Abel's second murder in the episode Imperfect Hosts, you will see Cain snag a cookie (biscuit). This is a nod to the old House of Mystery comics where Cain had a sweet tooth. In one issue Karen Berger (founder of Vertigo and the one who took a chance on the original Sandman comics) bribed Cain with cookies.

14. Lyta is originally from a defunct continuity where she was Wonder Woman's daughter. Her name was short for Hippolyta, named after Wonder Woman's mother.

15. Jed was a character from the 1976 Sandman comics and now (in his dreams) wears the costume of that hero as a little call back to his origin. Hector Hall served as that hero for a time but that was left out of the TV show.

16. Hector is from a semi-defunct continuity where he was the grandson of Carter Hall (Hawkman). Hector and Lyta have been used repeatedly in DC comics and in their most recent appearances in JSA (2008) they died and their souls were taken into The Dreaming by their son, Daniel. This was Hector's second death because... comic books. He was revived after Sandman and then killed again.

17. Jed has twelve inch action figures of both Wonder Woman and Batman.

18. Morpheus's capture is in 1916 to overlap with the real world sleeping sickness that happened around that time.

19. Death being given an apple by a friendly fruit vender is from the comic Death: The High cost of Living.

20. Though not shown in the episode, the hunger Hob describes feeling but not being able to die from it- Morpheus experienced that in his captivity. In the comics the first thing he did when he escaped was eat, before even conjuring clothing. He raided a dream buffet. 21. The sigils in each Endless Gallery are supposed to be in age order. A book (Destiny), an Ankh (Death), the helm (Dream), a blank space (formerly a sword for Destruction), A heart (Desire), a hooked ring (Despair), and a swirl of color for Delirium. An illustration mistake put Death's ankh first in some of the early comics depicting Desire's gallery. That mistake was deliberately inserted into the TV series as a homage to the original comics. 22. Matthew The Raven was Matthew Cable (a character from Swamp Thing) when he was alive. If you would like a version of his backstory, watch the canceled 2019 Swamp Thing Series. Very different actor but that was the same character (originally). When they found out Swamp Thing would not get a second season they tacked on a scene of Matthew being killed just in case The Sandman got adapted since Matthew the raven was made from Matthew’s ghost. 23. Ric the Vic was an ally of John Constantine's in the comics. 24. The Boogey Man and Family Man (mentioned by the serial killers) were villains from DC comics. Family Man was actually the killer of John Constantine's father. Both Family Man and Boogey Man died. One in Swamp Thing, one in Hellblazer (John Constantine's comics). 25. John Dee is the old Justice League villain, Doctor Destiny. It was probably wise not to use his alias as it would confuse new fans with Destiny of The Endless. 26. Pandemonium (meaning "All the Demons”) is the capital city of Hell in John Milton's Paradise Lost. This is where the word comes from. In The Sandman Netflix series Pandemonium deliberately resembles The Vatican. 27. Matthew comments on how cold Hell is. Believe it or not the earliest depictions of Hell were of a very cold place because it was devoid of God's light, love, and warmth. It was medieval art that popularized the idea of Hell being hot. 28. The Wonder Woman 1984 movie borrows Morpheus's Dreamstone and reinvents it as a plot device with a different design. The actor who plays Abel is also in Wonder Woman 1984 as the man who wished for a cup of coffee. I choose to pretend it was Abel in disguise. 29. Many actors in The Sandman bonus episode Dream of a Thousand Cats and Calliope were in The Sandman Audio drama. David Tennant (Loki in the audio drama), Michael Sheen (Lucifer), Arthur Darvill (Shakespeare), James McAvoy (Morpheus), and Neil Gaiman.

30. Arthur Darvill has played three DC characters so far. Shakespeare (Sandman audio drama), Richard Madoc (Sandman Netflix series), and Rip Hunter (Legends of Tomorrow).

31. Mark Hamill has played The Joker (Batman animated series, animated movies and video games), Trickster (The Flash 1990s series and Justice League: Action), and Swamp Thing (Justice League Action) and now Mervyn Pumpkinhead (Sandman). Mark Hamill has also voiced Marvel characters like Hobgoblin (90s Spiderman animated series), and ironically he was Nightmare in Ultimate Spiderman (Animated series). Nightmare (ruler of the Dream Dimension) is pretty much Marvel’s equivalent of Dream if he had never had his “time out” bubble. Though Nightmare was created first he went under drastic revisions to make him more and more like Dream. In fact in the 2019 Deadpool: Annual 1, when Deadpool landed in Nightmare’s throne room he quips “Is Neil Gaiman going to sue us for this?” Bonus: 32. Cain and his house of Mystery appeared in the animated series Justice League: Action for the episode Trick or threat. 33. The grimoire used to summon and trap Morpheus was used in the Justice League: Action episode Supernatural adventures in Babysitting (though they used the wrong pronunciation. It’s Mawd-lin Grimoire, not Magda-lin Grimoire) even though it’s spent Magdalene Grimoire. 34. Death has an animated short called DC Showcase: Death. It is a bonus feature on the blu ray for the animated movie Wonder Woman: Bloodlines. 35. Morpheus’s helm appears as an Easter Egg in a Smallvile tie-in comic. 36. The storyline of the Lucifer TV show where Lucifer quits ruling Hell, goes to Earth, is followed by his loyal demon, Mazikeen, opens Lux, and takes up piano and singing is from The Sandman: Season of Mists. 37. The plot of Dead Boy Detectives is also from The Sandman: Season of Mists.

#The Sandman #Sandman #Neil Gaiman

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cscclibrary · 11 months

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[Square graphic with a pale tan background and text in varying shades of green. Text reads: “June Authors / Columbus State Library / library.cscc.edu”.]

Some amazing authors have birthdays in June! Follow the links below to find their works in our collection and in the OhioLINK catalog.

Thomas Hardy (June 2, 1840), English novelist and poet. Notable works: Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure.

Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926), core member of the Beat movement. Notable works: “Howl,” “Kaddish,” “America.”

Gwendolyn Brooks (June 7, 1917), Pulitzer Prize-winner and Poet Laureate. Notable works: A Street in Bronzeville, In the Mecca, Riot.

Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928), beloved and many-times-honored author and illustrator. Notable works: Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There.

William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865), celebrated poet, dramatist, and occultist who once kicked Aleister Crowley down a flight of stairs. Notable works: “An Irish Airman foresees his Death,” “The Second Coming,” “Easter, 1916.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811), abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and other works.

James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871), author, professor, and civil rights activist. Notable works: "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing,” God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.

Erich Maria Remarque (June 22, 1898), author of All Quiet on the Western Front and other works.

Octavia Butler (June 22, 1947), winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the MacArthur “Genius Grant.” Notable works: the Parable series, Kindred, the Patternist series.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (June 29, 1900), author and pilot. Notable works: Wind, Sand, and Stars, The Little Prince, Night Flight.

#virtual display #june authors #columbus state community college

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scotianostra · 1 year

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Professor Hector Munro Macdonald, one of Europe’s foremost mathematicians, died on the 16th of May, 1935.

Both of Hector Macdonald’s parents, his mother Annie Munro and his father Donald Macdonald, were from Kiltearn. Hector was the older of his parents’ two sons and, as a young child, he lived in Edinburgh. However, not long after he began his schooling in the Scottish capital, the family moved to a farm near Fearn, in Easter Ross. After arriving, Hector attended the local school before attending the Royal Academy in Tain.

He completed his school education at the Old Aberdeen Grammar School before entering Aberdeen University in 1882.

After studying mathematics at Aberdeen University, he graduated with First Class Honours in 1886 and won a Fullerton Scholarship. Macdonald proceeded to Cambridge to take the Mathematical Tripos after completing his first degree in Scotland. He graduated from Clare College Cambridge in 1891 and held a fellowship there until 1908 but in 1914 he was awarded an honorary fellowship of his former College. He was awarded the Royal Society’s Royal Medal in 1916 and, during 1916-18 served as president of the London Mathematical Society. During World War I, Macdonald did war service in London attached to the Ministry of Munitions where he dealt with wages.

This is where it all starts to go over my head, Macdonald worked on electric waves and solved difficult problems regarding diffraction of these waves by summing series of Bessel functions. He corrected his 1903 solution to the problem of a perfectly conducting sphere embedded in an infinite homogeneous dielectric in 1904 after a subtle error was pointed out by French mathematician Henri Poincaré.

The major problem which he tackled was that of wireless waves. About the time that Macdonald published his prize winning essay on electric wave, Marconi was successful in the transmission of the first wireless signals across the Atlantic. However, this posed a major problem, since according to the theory as then developed this should have been impossible.

Maths, it’s all Greek to me!

Macdonald became Professor of Mathematics at the University of Aberdeen in 1905 and remained at the University for the rest of his life.

Pics are of Hector and his grave at St Machar’s Cathedral Aberdeen.

#scotland #scottish #mathematician #scholar #professor #teacher #history

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amchara · 1 year

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For the book ask game: 2 (waiting for the recommendations hehehe 👀)

Ooh! Definitely had to think about this. I often love a book when I read it and parts stay with me but then... my memory is so full of other things that I don't remember until I see it again and then I go, oh, I loved that one! So I'm probably missing some. Haha, with that caveat...

The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (Ancient Greece-inspired YA book with an unforgettable, incorrigable thief, a ruthless queen and fantastic plot twists)

At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neil (Literary Fiction, lyrical and beautifully descriptive LGBT love story set during the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland)

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (Literary Fiction/Fantasy, sort-of. A story about the grand events of the 20th century and how it affects one family through the eyes of a girl who keeps dying and being reborn and living alternate lives each time)

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (Romance/Fantasy. Time travel romance that showed me how diverse this genre could be with a love story that still stays with me today, *swoon*)

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey (Fantasy. High fantasy alternate France with BDSM elements, courtesan spies, court intigue and lush world-building.

All of these have first books in a series except the Queen of Attolia (it's the second- but you don't need to have read the first necessarily) and At Swim, Two Boys, which is a stand-alone novel.

(Book ask meme)

#ask game #mutuals!#reader of books

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brookstonalmanac · 1 year

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Events 4.29

801 – An earthquake in the Central Apennines hits Rome and Spoleto, damaging the basilica of San Paolo Fuori le Mura. 1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. 1386 – Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and becomes its vassal. 1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans. 1483 – Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands, is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile. 1521 – Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops defeat a Danish force in the Battle of Västerås. 1760 – French forces commence the siege of Quebec which is held by the British. 1770 – James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names. 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique. 1826 – The galaxy Centaurus A or NGC 5128 is discovered by James Dunlop. 1861 – Maryland in the American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union. 1862 – American Civil War: The Capture of New Orleans by Union forces under David Farragut. 1864 – Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War. 1903 – A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada. 1910 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public. 1911 – Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded. 1916 – World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point. 1916 – Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end. 1944 – World War II: New Zealand-born SOE agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachutes back into France to be a liaison between London and the local maquis group. 1945 – World War II: The Surrender of Caserta is signed by the commander of German forces in Italy. 1945 – World War II: Airdrops of food begin over German-occupied regions of the Netherlands. 1945 – World War II: HMS Goodall (K479) is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet, becoming the last Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the European theatre of World War II. 1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. 1945 – Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops. 1945 – The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces. 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes. 1951 – Tibetan delegates arrive in Beijing and sign a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy. 1952 – Pan Am Flight 202 crashes into the Amazon basin near Carolina, Maranhão, Brazil, killing 50 people. 1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast shows an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV. 1965 – Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series. 1967 – After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title. 1968 – The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement. 1970 – Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong. 1974 – Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal. 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end. 1975 – Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnam-held Trường Sa Islands. 1986 – A fire at the Central library of the Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items. 1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea. 1986 – Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant. 1991 – A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless. 1991 – The 7.0 Mw  Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people. 1992 – Riots in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 63 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed. 1997 – The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories. 2004 – The final Oldsmobile is built in Lansing, Michigan, ending 107 years of vehicle production. 2011 – The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London. 2013 – A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people. 2013 – National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing seven people. 2015 – A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.

#Events

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werewolfetone · 1 year

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Oh yes - please do rec some videos! I have some (SOME) background knowledge but when I recently went back to the sources I had as a kid I realised they were extremely um. Not reliable. (written by British scholars in the 80s…) My knowledge of Irish history besides that is from very early on, mostly from stories I got told as a small child going to Catholic school (so, lots of info abt saints and not a great deal else). Thank you for taking the time to answer my question!!

Yeah, stuff written by British scholars in the 80s is definitely going to be... not great 😬. There are a few different videos I can recommend.

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This one seems like it was made in about 2005 presumably for Irish primary schools and it's a very very very basic introduction to the rebellion. It doesn't go into detail on anything but it does give a pretty good intro to Wolfe Tone, Mary Ann McCracken, and the Peep O'Day Boys as an organisation and their connection to the Orange Order.

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This one is THE most barebones summary of all of the military engagements, but it has some good visuals so I'm including it.

This youtube series is also for schools, but it goes over the entire rebellion and its causes and what came directly after it in a way that I think summarises it quite well. I particularly think this one does a great job as an introduction to the entire period, though it does assume that you've got a little background knowledge.

Trinity College Dublin put out a whole lecture series on Irish rebellions from 1798 - the Easter Rising, which are more in depth than the above and don't have any visuals. It's really good even if I do personally disagree with what they say about Edmund Burke. You can pick and choose which videos you'd like to watch from this because it is loooong and not all of it is related to 1798.

#also never apologise for asking me questions i love answering them. one thing about me is that i will answer questions #asks #anon #1798 rebellion #united irishmen #jory.txt

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he-ycomeonou-t · 1 year

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By 1916, Yeats was 51 years old and determined to marry and produce an heir. His rival, John MacBride, had been executed for his role in the 1916 Easter Rising, so Yeats hoped that his widow, Maud Gonne, might remarry.[68] His final proposal to Gonne took place in mid-1916.[69] Gonne's history of revolutionary political activism, as well as a series of personal catastrophes in the previous few years of her life—including chloroform addiction and her troubled marriage to MacBride—made her a potentially unsuitable wife;[43] biographer R. F. Foster has observed that Yeats's last offer was motivated more by a sense of duty than by a genuine desire to marry her.

Yeats proposed in an indifferent manner, with conditions attached, and he both expected and hoped she would turn him down. According to Foster, "when he duly asked Maud to marry him and was duly refused, his thoughts shifted with surprising speed to her daughter." Iseult Gonne was Maud's second child with Lucien Millevoye, and at the time was twenty-one years old. She had lived a sad life to this point; conceived as an attempt to reincarnate her short-lived brother, for the first few years of her life she was presented as her mother's adopted niece. When Maud told her that she was going to marry, Iseult cried and told her mother that she hated MacBride.[70] When Gonne took action to divorce MacBride in 1905, the court heard allegations that he had sexually assaulted Iseult, then eleven. At fifteen, she proposed to Yeats. In 1917, he proposed to Iseult but was rejected.

That September, Yeats proposed to 25-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees (1892–1968), known as George, whom he had met through Olivia Shakespear. Despite warnings from her friends—"George ... you can't. He must be dead"—Hyde-Lees accepted, and the two were married on 20 October 1917.[43] Their marriage was a success, in spite of the age difference, and in spite of Yeats's feelings of remorse and regret during their honeymoon. The couple went on to have two children, Anne and Michael. Although in later years he had romantic relationships with other women, Georgie herself wrote to her husband "When you are dead, people will talk about your love affairs, but I shall say nothing, for I will remember how proud you were."[71]

During the first years of marriage, they experimented with automatic writing; she contacted a variety of spirits and guides they called "Instructors" while in a trance. The spirits communicated a complex and esoteric system of philosophy and history, which the couple developed into an exposition using geometrical shapes: phases, cones, and gyres.[72] Yeats devoted much time to preparing this material for publication as A Vision (1925). In 1924, he wrote to his publisher T. Werner Laurie, admitting: "I dare say I delude myself in thinking this book my book of books".[73]

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brookston · 1 year

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Holidays 4.24

Holidays

Action Day for Tolerance and Respect between People (Argentina)

All Souls’ Day (Transdniestra)

Ambivalence Day

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenia)

California Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide (California)

Concord Day (Niger)

Day for the Naming of Rocks and Planets

Day of Silence (anti-bullying student protest)

Fashion Revolution Day

Firefly Day

Gathering of Nations Pow Wow (New Mexico)

Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenia)

International Day of Feminist Solidarity Against Transnational Corporations

International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace

International Watch Firefly Day

International Youth Solidarity Day

Kapyong Day (Australia, Canada)

Labour Safety Day (Bangladesh)

Library of Congress Day

Loktantra Diwas (Democracy Day; Nepal)

National Brandon Day

National Bucket List Day

National Dog Day (Finland)

National Kiss of Hope Day

National Lingerie Day

National Panchayati Raj Day (India)

National Physics Day

National Pool Opening Day

National Remembrance of Man's Inhumanity To Man Day

National Report Medicare Advantage Fraud Day

National Scream Day

New Kids on the Block Day

Newman Day

Oil in the Middle East Day

Pastele Blajinilor (Moldova)

Remembrance Day of Deportees (France)

Republic Day (The Gambia)

Right to Read Day

Spring Cat Cleaning Day

St. Mark’s Eve (UK)

Trojan Horse Day

Walk @ Lunch Day

World Anti-Colonialism Day

World Blind Sports Day

World Corrosion Awareness Day

World Day for Laboratory Animals (UN)

World Immunization Day

World Swimzi Day

World YMCA Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day

Sauvignon Blanc Day

Soda Fountain Day

4th & Last Monday in April

Confederate Memorial Day (AL, FL, GA) [4th Monday]

Confederate Memorial Day (Mississippi) [Last Monday]

Public Library Day [Monday of Library Week]

School Librarian Day [Monday of Library Week]

Independence Days

Ireland (a.k.a. Easter Rising; from UK, 1916)

Shireroth (Declared; 2000) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Benedict Menni (Christian; Saint)

Beuve of Rheims (Christian; Saint)

Commodus Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Dermot of Armagh (Christian; Saint)

Doda of Rheims (Christian; Saint)

Dyfnan of Anglesey (Christian; Saint)

Ecgberht of Ripon (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Eros (Ancient Greece)

Feast of Hermes Trismegistus (patron of alchemy)

Fidelis of Sigmaringen (Christian; Saint)

Gregory of Elvira (Christian; Saint)

Hairball Awareness Day (Pastafarian)

Ivo of Ramsey (Christian; Saint)

Johann Walter (Lutheran)

Kuningan (Purification Ritual at Tirta Empul, Bali)

Leonidas (Positivist; Saint)

Ljubov Popova (Artology)

Mary of Clopas (Christian; Saint)

Mary Euphrasia Pelletier (Christian; Saint)

Mellitus (Christian; Saint)

Mick the Stick (Muppetism)

The Mothers (Celtic Prosperity Festival)

Nathaniel Hone (Artology)

Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur (Christian; Saint)

Robert of Chase-Dies, Auvergne (Christian; Saint)

Salome (Christian; Disciple)

Susan DeLucci Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Walpurgisnacht, Day I (Pagan)

Wilfrid (Church of England)

William Firmatus (Christian; Saint)

Willem de Kooning (Artology)

Yom HaZikaron (a.k.a. Yom HaZikaron LeHalalei Ma’arakhot Yisrael ul’Nifge’ei Pe’ulot HaEivah or Memorial Day for the Fallen Soldiers of the Wars of Israel and Victims of Actions of Terrorism or יוֹם הזִּכָּרוֹן לְחַלְלֵי מַעֲרָכוֹת יִשְׂרָאֵל וּלְנִפְגְעֵי פְּעֻלּוֹת הָאֵיבָה) [4 Iyar]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Historically Bad Day (Greeks enter Troy, Armenian genocide, Iran hostage rescue fails & 3 other tragedies) [3 of 11]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [23 of 57]

Premieres

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (UK TV Series; 1984)

The Age of Adaline (Film; 2015)

Assault and Peppered (WB MM Cartoon; 1965)

Border Song, by Elton John (Song; 1970)

The Brethren, by John Grisham (Novel; 2000)

A Bright Shining Lie, by Neil Sheehan (Historical Book; 1989)

Calaboose Moose or The Crime of Your Life (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 43; 1960)

Diamond Dogs, by David Bowie (Album; 1974)

Ex Machina (Film; 2015)

Extraction (Film; 2020)

Full Moon Fever, by Tom Petty (Album; 1989)

I Wonder Why, by Dion & The Belmonts (Song; 1958)

The Man Who Fell To Earth (TV Series; 2022)

The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton (Novel; 1967)

Sliding Doors (Film; 1998)

Space, by James A. Michener (Novel; 1983)

There Goes My Baby, by The Drifters (Song; 1959)

Tom Thumb, by Henry Fielding (Play; 1730)

Valse Triste, by Jean Sibelius (Orchestral Work; 1904)

Waitress (Broadway Musical; 2016)

When a Felon Needs a Friend or Pantomime Quisling (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 44; 1960)

Woman is the N****r of the World, by John Lennon (Song; 1972)

Year of the Comet (Film; 1992)

Today’s Name Days

Egbert, Fidelis, Wilfried (Austria)

Fidel, Vjera, Vjeran (Croatia)

Jiří, Jiřina (Czech Republic)

Albertus (Denmark)

Aada, Iida, Vaida, Vanda (Estonia)

Albert, Altti, Pertti (Finland)

Fidèle (France)

Egbert, Marion, Virginia, Wilfried (Germany)

Achilles, Doukas, Elisavet, Elizabeth, Thavmastos (Greece)

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Eamon Bulfin, the Irish-Argentinian who hoisted the Green Flag of the Republic over the GPO.

Eamon Bulfin was an Argentine-born Irish republican. A former pupil at Pádraig Pearse’s school St Enda’s (Sgoil Éanna), in Rathfarnham, Dublin. Bulfin was a member of the Irish Volunteers and the IRB and along with some fellow St Enda’s students created home-made bombs in the school’s basement in preparation for the Easter Rising. He was stationed in the GPO for the Rising and raised one of the…

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IRISH STATE 2016

When the rebels had been crushed in the GPO on Dublin’s O’Connell Street and the devastation to the existing shambles of a city was inspected, the soon-to-be martyrs were excoriated as traitors and criminals. This was because the rebels had attacked the GPO on O’Connell Street.

Popular opinion did not begin to shift against the reigning British regime until after the leaders of the 1916 uprising were executed. A military overreaction, which occurred frequently throughout the history of British colonial possessions, sparked a series of events that eventually led to the overthrow of that regime. One of the defining moments on the path to Indian independence was the 1919 slaughter that took place at Amritsar, which took place in India. This tragedy helped turn public sentiment against the British on the subcontinent.

The events that transpired in Ireland followed a very similar pattern.

The awakening of the sleeping Irish population came about as a direct result of the execution of Pearse and Connolly, who were the most prominent of the sixteen individuals who were put to death at that time.

The Easter Rising was the immediate cause of Ireland’s subsequent war of independence, which Michael Collins led as Prime Minister while Eamon de Valera established the first government. The young Irish state was eventually able to stand on its own two feet, but not before a bloody civil war broke out in the interim. In 1948, the government of Ireland formally organised itself as a republic.

What would have happened to Ireland if the sixteen people who were executed had instead been imprisoned rather than executed? Would the Irish have been content to just rebuild Dublin and carry on with their lives if they had been ruled by the British? How much longer do you think it would have been before there was another uprising? If the British Empire still ruled Ireland today, would the entire island of Ireland be under its control?

Of course, there is no way to tell for sure. As the saying goes, “history is written by the victors,” and those people who, even now, condemn the uprising as an illegal and immoral act of madness are drowned out, having their ideas trumped by the eventual results of the Rising. History is written by the victors.

The price that the men and women of 1916 paid did, in fact, have enormous repercussions for every individual who lives on this island and for every person who claims Irish ancestry.

In 1916, there will be a whole series of activities to remember the Rising, and there will be lots of similarities between the reasons of those heroic men and the incentives that we elect for our leaders today.

Economies Around the World

Maybe you already know what I’m talking about? Ireland has made its return! To some extent, yes.

Anecdotal evidence of an economic recovery in Ireland is supported by a wealth of numerical evidence, which demonstrates that numbers almost never lie.

At its highest point in 2012, unemployment was above 15%; today, it is at 8.8%. According to projections made by the OECD, Ireland’s gross domestic product would increase by more than 4.1% in 2016, placing it much ahead of the average for Europe. The number of applications for planning clearance for building projects is up significantly, the number of sales of new automobiles is up significantly, the number of strikes by employees is down significantly, and the confidence of consumers has increased significantly.

All good news.

Unless you come to the conclusion that the main reason the economy is recovering is because of the huge decline in the value of the Euro currency relative to the value of other currencies and the value of the United States dollar (which is helping exports a great deal), then you should not draw that conclusion.

There is now sufficient evidence from both human and animal studies showing that cumulative exposure to aluminium adjuvants is not as benign as previously assumed.

You can also come to the conclusion that the decline in the price of oil, which is a key economic element in both the United States and the rest of the world, has helped the situation with Ireland’s currency.

You can also come to the conclusion that the decline in the unemployment rate is only attributable to the fact that a large number of people from the present generation have moved to countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and other countries further afield.

Or perhaps you are thinking about the most significant challenges facing the Irish economy. There is no general agreement over the potential financial impact on Ireland that would result from the United Kingdom’s decision later this year to withdraw from the European Union (which will be put to a vote). Massive immigration from countries in the European Union (EU) and refugees from other parts of the world might bring the social and healthcare systems, which are already in disrepair, to their knees.

Or perhaps you don’t care about any of that and just want to act like it’s 1999 and you’re in “Celtic Tiger” Ireland.

We are all aware of the outcome of the situation.

Politics

Fine Gael went into the year of 1916 General Election certain that they would retain their position as the ruling party. Recognized by the people of Ireland for their role in rescuing the country.

At the very least, it is how Enda Kenny and the other members of his team would prefer the circumstance to be interpreted.

On the one hand, the leadership of Fine Gael continues to criticise their political adversaries in Fianna Fail for allegedly enacting policies that have a negative impact on the economy.

On the other hand, the exact same politicians keep implementing and expanding those exact same policies, holding out hope against all odds that the Irish electorate will either not notice or will not care. They will reason that the only thing that the average punter cares about is having money in their back pocket.

It’s possible that they are correct. If recent events are any indication, then it should come as no surprise that the average Irish voter is far simpler than is commonly believed to be the case.

Or perhaps Irish people will further illustrate that self-interested philosophy by voting a whole new raft of independent “local-issue” T.D.’s, which has the potential to create electoral mayhem (members of the Irish parliament).

In all honesty, the results of the approaching election are quite impossible to forecast.

But there is no doubt that Fine Gael will take the helm of the next government. If they were not, it would be a major talking point.

Fianna Fáil harbours faint hopes of regaining lost territory, but it is unrealistic for them to believe that they will actually form the government after the ballots are counted. Despite this, people can hold out hope.

Even while they continue to perform well in opinion polls, Sinn Fein are completely hampered by their murderous IRA heritage and links.

The socialist left, which includes the Socialist Party, People Before Profit, and a whole host of other left-wing groups, is fully anticipating that they will be able to trounce the Labour Party, which was meant to be the party that would protect the country from harsh austerity. The Labour Party is in for a rough ride in the upcoming election.

You might be wondering about the right-leaning political parties.

You have the option to inquire. However, Ireland does not possess any of these. To be honest, no.

Not in the sense of being a right-wing party in which one despises liberals, denies the legitimacy of abortion, is homophobic, xenophobic, and brandishes firearms. And you know, that might not be such a bad thing. Or perhaps not.

Every national debate must unquestionably have some element of fairness and moderation. Some looney fringe that exists if for no other reason than to demonstrate how astute we all are to huddle together in the centre ground.

And if not a completely looney fringe, then at the very least a well-reasoned opinion with which we may either agree or disagree. One of the unsolved riddles in the annals of Irish political history is why there has never been a significant right-wing party in Ireland that has managed to stay in power.

Therefore, with the 1916 Anniversary celebrations shortly to be exploited for political benefit by each and everyone who comes along, it is indeed business as usual in the so-called “Ireland of the self-interest.”

Alterations Made to Irish Society

It should come as no surprise that the referendum on “same-sex marriage” was successful in Ireland in 2015. The vote was ultimately successful, with 62% in favour and approximately 38% opposed. It is quite evident that the decision has resulted in certain unanticipated consequences, and contrary to popular belief, these repercussions have nothing to do with the legalisation of homosexual marriage.

Some elements of the Irish media continue to portray the outcome of the referendum as a win for the entire country, which is perhaps the most significant issue that has arisen as a result of the outcome of the vote. This smugness on the part of these elements of the media has been extremely excessive. Naturally, in their world, the result of the referendum is a huge win, especially considering that they campaigned in concert with the national print and broadcast media in support of the vote being carried out. But is this a win for the entirety of the nation?

According to the same line of reasoning, the referendum on abortion that took place in Ireland in 1983 and resulted in the constitutional prohibition of abortion (62 percent to 38 percent) was a win for the entire nation.

According to this line of thinking, the outcome of the referendum held in 2013 to keep the ineffective and wasteful Seanad (lower house of parliament) was a win for the entire nation.

A victory for the entire country was achieved in the referendum held in 2013 to keep the minimum age for holding the presidency of Ireland at 35 years of age rather than lowering it to 21 years of age.

It is very clear that a significant number of Irish authors and commentators are unaware of the fact that each and every third voter who went to the trouble of casting a ballot in the referendum on gay marriage was really opposed to the adoption of the new laws.

Homophobes and bigots, each and every one of them!

The ease with which the concerns of the nearly 38% of people who opposed the referendum have been dismissed as belonging not just to another era of old Ireland but as being out of touch, bigoted, uninformed, unintelligent, backward, and (insert demeaning word here) is truly astounding. They have been labelled as being “out of touch,” “bigoted,” “uninformed,” “unintelligent,” and “backward.”

Smugness is never a desirable attribute in a person or group of people; and yet, smugness, contempt, and scorn have remained the consistent tone of the conversation among the vast majority of pundits ever since the vote to legalise gay marriage was successful.

The outcome is unquestionably a significant victory for those who advocate for gay marriage (62%). Regarding the 38 percent of respondents who disagreed with the proposal and gave their reasons for doing so, The outcome of the referendum not only altered the Irish Constitution but also, it would appear, rendered them mute and abandoned them by the well-funded and still self-satisfied and arrogant liberal commentariat.

There is now sufficient evidence from both human and animal studies showing that cumulative exposure to aluminium adjuvants is not as benign as previously assumed.

The European Union and Ireland

The economy will continue to be the primary topic of discussion in Europe; nevertheless, there are currently two other important concerns that are occupying the continent’s minds.

The staggering number of people fleeing their homes in Eastern Europe and making their way westward, in especially to Germany and Sweden, is a major source of concern.

It can be challenging to get a grasp on just what the German policy on immigration is (and, by extension, the policy of the EU).

The Germans are taking a risk that is greater than the economy of Europe by allowing predominantly Syrian citizens to enter their country. The terrorist events in Paris provide politicians on the political right with an opportunity to draw a clear connection between immigration and lawlessness. Whether they are correct or not, they can refer to a liberal immigration system as an example of a regime that will encourage terrorism. They will claim that the programme would result in an increase in unemployment, and that on the social level, it will result in the formation of ghettos.

And this is not to minimise the genuine readiness and desire to assist the neediest people in Syria, Africa, and other parts of the world who are being taken advantage of by heartless gangsters and military tyrants.

Knowledge of endogenous plasma arginine vasopressin activity prior to initiation of therapy could therefore be helpful in clinical bedside decision making and should be the goal of future research.

People in Ireland are eager to lend a hand. They simply do not want to have their intelligence called into question. That they would allow a culture from outside their borders to supplant the culture of their own country, all in the name of political correctness, is an extreme example of liberalism gone wild.

Allergy is a disease of growing concern because of its already high and still increasing prevalence, and because it interferes with people’s social life, school performance and work productivity, therefore it constitutes a major burden for society.

Is it possible that people feel the same way in your country?

Another significant challenge that Europe must overcome this year is “the Brexit.” According to the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, the possibility that the United Kingdom will withdraw from the European Union is one that could have enormous repercussions for Ireland and may even require the reestablishment of the border along the six partitioned counties in Ulster. This is the opinion of the Taoiseach.

Results from preliminary clinical observations suggest that frankincense essential oil may be a viable therapeutic agent for treating a variety of cancers.

However, as was the case when the people of Scotland were given the opportunity to leave the United Kingdom but they declined, it is likely that the people of the United Kingdom will be given a variety of concessions. The pro-European machine, which is intent on maintaining the United Kingdom’s membership in the Union at all costs, will immediately follow this bait with the stick, which will consist of spreading unfounded fears about the enormous costs of leaving the Union.

The majority of bookmakers currently place the odds of a Brexit at approximately 2 to 1. (or 1 occurrence of a Brexit every 3 opportunities). Therefore, it is evident that they believe the referendum will be unsuccessful.

Having said that. You can never tell.

Culture

It is not difficult to look back on Ireland in 1916 and consider that time period to be the greatest age of Irish writing. During that time period, the early part of the century, Ireland produced a number of great authors, including William Butler Yeats, Oliver St. John Gogarty, James Stephens, James Joyce, and John Millington Synge, to name a few. A great golden age.

But hold on! The year 2016 has seen the beginning of a new writing revolution in Ireland.

Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, while Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle, John Banville, and Anne Enright were all given the Man Booker Prize. These well-known authors are just the top of the proverbial iceberg. There has never been a time when Irish writing has been more popular than it is right now, and with good reason; there are innumerable excellent voices producing truly remarkable writing that are not included here.

In the world of sports, Katie Taylor maintains her dominant position in Ireland, and the Irish national soccer team has qualified for the European championships to be held in France, indicating that Irish soccer is on its road back to its former glory.

On the big screen, Saoirse Ronan is garnering acclaim for her performance in the film “Brooklyn,” while Michael Fassbender, Colm Farrell, Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, and Aidan Gillen are among the talented actors demonstrating that the Irish acting scene is in an excellent place.

The Conclusion Regarding the Condition of the Irish Nation in the Year 2016

Even one hundred years after the Easter Rebellion, Ireland is still searching for its national identity. Even now, we are looking for it.

The Irish of 2016 are a confused and diverse mix, just like every other generation of Irish people that has come before them.

However, there are instances when it may be a touch excessively comfortable.

And possibly just a tad too haughty.

However, considering the disgrace that the Irish have suffered over the past ten years, those who have already written them off had best get ready to start eating their words.

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Loves Revolution

Chapter 1

Pairing: Bradley Bradshaw (as Micheal Collins) x Jake Seresin (as Harry Boland) x OC! Madison Cassidy

Word count: 3.2K

A/n: This is the first post to my new series so please be nice! I'm going to try to make this into a series so please show this story a bit of love and reblog!

Summary: Bradley, Jake and Maddie have been friends for many years ongoing. Bradley from Cork and Jake and Madison from the troubled Dublin, have been close for life. Now fighting in the 1916 Easter rising and the ongoing history to the Treaty and the independence of Ireland their story lives on...

History: Bradley (represents) :Michael Collins (October 16, 1890 – August 22, 1922) was an Irish revolutionary, soldier, and politician who was a key role in the early twentieth-century campaign for Irish independence. During the Irish Civil War, he served as Director of Intelligence for the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and as a government minister in the self-proclaimed Irish Republic. From January 1922, he was Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State, and from July till his death in an ambush in August 1922, he was Commander-in-Chief of the National Army.

Jake (represents) :Harry Boland (April 27, 1887 – August 1, 1922) was an Irish republican politician who led the Irish Republican Brotherhood from 1919 to 1920. From 1918 until 1922, he was a Teachta Dála (TD).He was elected as the MP for Roscommon South in the 1918 general election, but, like other Sinn Féin candidates, he did not serve in the British House of Commons, instead sitting as a TD in the First Dáil. Boland was elected to the second Dáil as a TD for Mayo South-Roscommon South in the 1921 general election. He was re-elected as an anti-Treaty candidate in 1922, but he perished two months later during the Irish Civil War.

History :The Easter Rising (Irish: Éir Amach na Cásca), often known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurgency in Ireland in April 1916 during Easter Week. While the United Kingdom was waging the First World War, Irish republicans started the Rising against British control in Ireland with the goal of establishing an independent Irish Republic. It was Ireland's greatest important insurrection since the 1798 rebellion and the first armed battle of the Irish revolutionary period. Beginning in May 1916, sixteen of the Rising's leaders were executed. The executions' nature, as well as following political developments, eventually contributed to an upsurge in popular support for Irish independence.

Warning: Mentions of gun use, ptsd, mentions of death, mentions of shooting, flirting, mentions of abuse, description of dead body, death, blood

Year 1916, Easter

"Sir, we got the General Post Office surrounded, Sir! We believe that inside are De Valera, Macdonagh, Clark, Connolly and a lot of other rebellions, sir!" One of the funny dressed British soldiers replies to their head commander, with hand at forehead, ready for a salute. This is how the English planned it all along, for the most important rebellions to be stuck at one place, surrounded with no escape.

"So we have the G.P.O, good, very good, but what about O'Connells street, Stevens green, The Liffey and the four courts?" The head commander asked the young man who still held his hand above his head, not moving an inch. "The areas are empty, sir! Either captured or escaped but the rest are at the G.P.O, sir!"

They're all where they were supposed to be, all in one place, no room to escape and they'll give in to this nonsense, they had no way to continue fighting against the British or loyal Irish. The undertakers or loyal Irish were against the rebellions, fighting against them at this very moment, all they had to do now is give themselves up to the English.

"Are there any women inside, lieutenant?" Any innocent woman that had been stuck inside the G.P.O that had been inside the building for the past five days, did not deserve the faith they may face in several minutes from now. The soldiers aligned outside of the building will not hesitate to kill anyone on the inside but the women didn't deserve it.

"There's women of aid and very little volunteers, sir! We believe that one of the fellow female friends of De Valera's help is inside the building. Her parents put her off name Madison Cassidy, but to the public she's known as 'Maddie', sir!" A woman so apparently known to the public but how? No woman that the commander has heard of went by that name or was 'known to the public', no woman has ever had the might or power to be so known in the streets of Dublin or the county of Leinster. "What do you mean 'known to the public', lieutenant?" "She's a public speaker, sir!"

A female public speaker? And that was apparently known to people. Absurd. An absolute absurdity. Some young girl, that he has never heard of decided to become a public speaker. What a joke! She should be scrubbing the dishes, washing the linen, taking care of the kids or cooking and not wasting her time over public speeches. And who would even listen to her? Some sort of female, trying to put her thought into a speech that is apparently supposed to motivate people to do something.

And she believes that's gonna work, but like the lieutenant mentioned, she did work with De Valera. "Bring her to me, nobody lay a finger upon her, understood?" "Yes sir!"

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The gun shots echoed in your ears. It was a sensation as if your ears were violently and rapidly ringing, due to the awful noises that have been haunting your brain for the past five days. You've been in the G.P.O for so long and at this point, it felt like you haven't left in centuries.

You're hiding behind a big, destructed pillar at the moment, leaning your back against it, catching your breath. There was no way out, there was English all around the grand building and mostly everything inside was burning and what didn't make it better is the roof, it's too weak to hold more racket. Even if the English didn't manage to get you guys out, the roof looked like it was only gonna last two more days before swallowing all of you.

"Maddie!" Bradley's voice, called out as the rebel has been looking for you. Him and Jake have been shooting from further up front of the building and now you were unsure if to answer. You couldn't fight more, even though it was written in your blood to fight for the right of being an independent country. But now Leinster, Munster, Connaught and Ulster should forgive you but you've had enough.

"I'm here!" You call out from behind the pillar, Bradley immediately runs over to you, diving behind the pillar like you did as a shelter from not getting shot.

"We're giving up," he told you, those baby cow eyes never dropping your gaze, not even for a second. "What?" You couldn't believe it. You guys destroyed Dublin. The streets of your hometown were in ruins from this rebellion, just so you could give up. That was bloody nonsense.

"They got us surrounded, we have no choice but to give in." "Bradle-" He cut you off, he knew you'd argue or do some sort of disagreement but there was no other way. "I know Maddie, but we had a meeting upstairs and there's nothing we can do they have the four courts and Stevens green and the rest. We have to make it out alive and this is not a step towards that."

You look over the pillar to see men on your side fighting, tired wrecked and most likely depressed. They're not going to make it out alive if we don't give up but if we do they'll probably be shot, either way.

"BRADSHAW!" De Valera calls out, with his old, crispy sharp voice. Sounds like a snob but is the chief, the man everyone listens to and who is leading your group forward. He had to go, you wonder how or when they're going to give up but he lays a soft, delicate, quick kiss on your cheek and gets up and runs towards Jake to help. Jake looks like he had enough.

The building's broken architecture, dust has covered his body and he looks wrecked. He looked over at Bradley running and quickly yanked him behind to a standing pillar up front of the G.P.O. The military has brought in machine guns, full loads and everyone crouches down with full might trying not to get shot. You all were going to die, you knew it. Either shot now or shot later is how you're all going to end, just each had to decide what's best for themselves.

For a full ten minutes of nonstop shooting, the military guns stopped, waiting for a reaction out of the rebellion group. They were going to give up now, you knew it. Dev and the rest ran over to a soldier and wrapped a white flag around his shotgun and told him to head up front.

This is the sign of the rebellions giving up. This was the sign to signify that you guys had enough. One by one they leave the building and you get up from behind the fallen pillar and run to the exit. The second you reach behind De Valera, Bradshaw and Seresin you could tell they were going to give up and this was the end for them.

You stand behind them as the English General calls out orders, "FOUR STEPS FORWARD!" You all do as told. "DROP YOUR WEAPONS!" Anyone who held a gun or anything of that sort does as they're told. "NOW, TWO STEPS BACK!" And that was the last order till the round up.

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An English General was calling out English rebellion names, one by one, dragging them out of the crowd by his ugly cane. "McDonagh. Thomas Clark." Both were dragged out of the crowd by the bloody officer. Each name was dragged out in his tongue and then the actionist was dragged out of the group, except one injured man, Connolly, who was lying down due to a leg wound and instead he was just kicked and carried away on the cloth stretcher.

"Get up, you Fenian swine. Now who else am I missing?" The general murmurs are loud enough for you to hear. He looks up and down the crowd and lays his gaze upon you. "Cassidy!" He calls out your second name and dragged you with his cane forward. Beside you stood the rest of your friends just like before and called out one more name before leaving. "De Valera!"

At that Bradley grunted and pulled a bit forward but Jake got a grip of him and pulled him back. "Brad, if we wanna make out of this shit hole alive, I'm sorry to say but we can't do anything about this," Jake says as he watches the officers drag you and Dev away. And murmurs lowly below his breath, "We can't do anything now."

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They dragged you out of your cell. Death by the firing squad, you can see it so clearly now. Your own fellow friends, the 'Loyal Irish' are about to shoot you and cost you your life in just minutes.

As they drag you through the halls that are dim with no light, you expect happy memories to come but your mind stays dark and blank. You were dragged up as far as the outside where on the floor all you saw was blood from the last corpse that was shot and too heavy and invaluable to carry so just dragged like a worthless shit.

You were lined up against the wooden wall and you looked over to the soldier that was supposed to put a bag over your head but instead said, "Pray." That simple four letter word was a suggestion, a way that god would forgive you but the soldiers were gonna be pissed off more because you were catholic not some prodestant like the English tried, but you still say your prayers as a command. You do the sign of the holy cross and pray.

"I confess to almighty God and to you my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do.

Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever- Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.

Amen."

And at that the same male officer who just two minutes back, barked at you to pray, gets handed a sack. The sack that was about to be thrown over your head, before one of the fellow Irish citizens on behalf of the English shoots you.

You wanted to scream but nobody would listen. You wanted to run but you wouldn't get far. You wanted to tell Jake and Bradley that you cared about them. You wanted Dublin and all of Ireland to be free again. At that thought the sack was thrown over your head and the big bang of the guns stopped your thinking for all….

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'The fact that l was born in America might save my hide. Either way, I am ready for what comes. The Irish Republic is a dream no longer. It is daily sealed by the lifeblood of those who proclaimed it. And every one of us they shoot brings more people to our side.They cannot imprison us forever. And from the day of our release, Bradley, we must act as if the Republic is a fact. We defeat the British Empire by ignoring it. Now I hear the payers of our beloved friends, Macdonagh, Clark, Cassidy, each of them ended their last speech with Amen and to us that will stand for peace, yet so we shall still try to make it our peace and remember the men and woman in a way that no one ever has.'

That was the first and last letter from Dev and the way that your second name stood out to Bradley was significant. He loved the way you cringed when he said your full name and you crinkled your nose, which caused him to laugh uncontreablly, but now that's all gone.

"She's dead, Jake, they shot her," Bradley, tries not to break apart on the prison steps as he lets those words leave his mouth. The young woman that he admired, fought with was now easily put six feet underground due to a bullet. Such a short, beautiful life of a lady, wasted due to a firing squad.

"She died like she wished, Brad, she wanted to fight for her country and die trying," Jake lets out as he can't stop thinking about you just standing there, waiting for the bullet to pierce your skin. He wanted to cry, scream but he couldn't, not here or now. Bradley was the same he wanted to choke the next guard he saw because there's a chance that it was their bullet that hit you.

"She didn't deserve it, Jake. Not her. She fought but we dragged her into this." "We may have involved her into this, but nobody deserves this faith, Brad. Absolutely nobody."

Year 1918, May

"They let us out of jail so we can do our best to be put inside again," Bradley smirked as the two got of the train that has brought them out of prison sights into town. Shirt drive but freedom for the first time in two years. Final peace with no officers at your back or stupid cells and jail uniforms.

"Don't you see a certain paradox in that?" Jake looked over at his companion in a short shock and repeated. "Paradox." At that Bradley crumbles the piece of paper that he was reading and states like some dictionary. "A contradiction. An immovable force meets an immovable object kind of thing."

The two of them continue walking forward and see a young bride and groom saying their goodbyes to their family as the town was too small for them and they wished to see the world, explore. It brought sadness in both of the men's hearts thinking both about the lovely lady in their past. And sadly the main word of that sentence was past, because whatever hopes they had for her were over now.

"Look, isn't that a lovely picture?" It truly was. It's the kind of picture everyone wishes for and desires at heart. "Maybe we should settle down." Probably a smart thing. To find love in this hopeless place may have made it easier the get through in life and focus on the main goals in a different perspective. In a love kind of way. "Just the two of us?" The other friend joked causing the two to laugh.

"And him." Says Bradley while Jake looks to him in pure confusion. "Who?" Jake had no clue who his fellow friend was referring to and you could easily tell that by the expression on Jake's face. Bradley simply points at the car with two men standing outside. Tom and Sean the men they've fought the Easter Rising with. The two, were friends with Jake and Bradley and somehow we're still not chickened out to help them.

"How are you?" Bradley asks giving Tom a hug as the two have not seen each other since the line up. Tom smiles up at him, since he falls rather short in height and pats Bradley shoulders. "Well, as best as a rebel can be." With those words leaving his mouth, Tom turns to Jake giving him an equal hug as Sean quickly hugs Bradley. "Get in you two, we got a show to attend!"

"How did they know we we're here already?" Bradley wonders looking over his shoulder to find two of the loyal Irish that have been following him and Jake even since the two of them have left jail and entered the not so free freedom. They were gonna get chased down on every step they make every. Any plan will be tracked and this is not what freedom is supposed to be about.

"They know what we eat for breakfast Bradley. This is the bare minimum of their poxy power," answered Sean while driving on a country side road, filled with branches everywhere and no actual pathways for pedestrians. It was a quite Irish road; nothing close to being straight, it was filled by potholes and indents and it wouldn't even be defined as a road, it was just a bunch of loose gravel.

"Well there's only one answer to that. We find out what they eat for breakfast!" Bradley exclaims as Jake looked at his friend in pure confusion and a bit of terror. The terror of how had he managed to survive with the lad for so long. The two years in prison together and many years of friendship before that. People would call him mad if they seen that he survived that long with the crazy brunette. "You're a mad fucker, Bradley," Jake said shaking his head side to side.

"Yeah, but I'm the mad fuck you hang out with," said the brunette, laying his baby cow eyes upon his friends, spring green ones. The two of them are close. They've always been that way but some bond that they have will never be broken. No such thing on this world can interrupt their friendship.

"So are the two of you looking for anyone out the old leading squad?" Asked Sean, with a hint of suspense in his voice. Was there really anyone from the old leading squad left that wasn't shot, hung or killed in any kind of way. Bradley looked over his shoulder to see that the loyal Irish were still behind them, hunting them down like hawks for their pray, right on their heals, step by step behind them. "Well, who can we look for? Either shot or some other cruel way of getting put down into the poxy earth!" Said Jake as he was sitting down, in a kind of slouch, hand behind his head, leaning back with his old fashion cap over his eyes to block out the Irish sun that was barely ever showing at times.

"Ah, Maddie made a big fit out of it a whole while back. Pissed her off, it did! Several speeches and annoying the British that they bloody had to have a full law talk with her but she won!"

Maddie? As in their Maddie? Madison Cassidy? The woman that the two grew up with and who sadly lost her life to the firing squad in 1916? That can't be right. She gott shot, just like the rest. Full prayer ending and mad shit like tha'. This didn't make sense. It didn't add up. "As in our Maddie?" Exclaimed Bradley, thinking he's mistaken, he saw his dear friend get dragged out the line up and heard about her shooting. "Yeah. Don't you guys know Maddie? Madison Cassidy? She worked with De Valera, yeah she still does all the speech things." Answered Tom , expecting the two men to have met the young, independent, confident woman.

This shook the two men inside. They've heard and believed for the last two years the woman that the two of them shared interest for had died, cruelly, due to the firing squad. "We thought she died!" Jake said, he's still shocked. Once he heard that she is alive, he quickly sat up from his slouched position, rubbed his hands down his face and fixed his flat hat. "Nah, they wouldn't manage to put her down that easily!"

"We heard she got shot by the firing squad after the G.P.O!" This is what they have believed and hearing the news that she's been alive the whole time doesn't quite add up to the two men. "Nah, she's alive mate!"

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