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Easter Rising Commemorations to Take Place Next Sunday [25min]

1) Taoiseach Bertie Ahern talks about the background to the Government's decision to restore the commemoration events. 2) In the style of the day, Brian Dobson reports on attitudes to the Rising as it happened. 3) Kathleen Clarke recalls her last visits to her husband. 4) Members of the British authorities, General Blackadder and William Wiley, were impressed by leaders. 5) Listen to reading of Francis Sheeny Skeffington's letter to Thomas McDonagh.
Read entire article at RTÉ Radio One "This Week"