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28 February – The first English-language production of Samuel Beckett's Come and Go was performed at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin. [18] Tom Murphy's plays Famine (21 March) and The Orphans (7 October) were first produced in Dublin (at the Abbey and Gate Theatres respectively). [18]
The preceding 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland was the focus, with Easter Day considered the "National Day of Commemoration". [4] There was a major parade [where?] each Easter until 1971, when the Troubles in Northern Ireland made the commemoration of the earlier Irish Republican rebels more problematic in symbolism.
Celebrations began on Easter Sunday on April 10, 1966 when a Military parade took place in Dublin.An estimated 200,000 people attended the march as it paraded down O'Connell Street before stopped outside the General Post Office, the headquarters of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders.
On Sunday 24 April, events occurred to mark the centenary date of the start of the Rising. President Higgins, Taoiseach Kenny, members of the Government, Oireachtas and judiciary attended a ceremony at Arbour Hill, where a requiem Mass was overseen by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin. An interfaith ceremony was held at ...
Easter Monday: Luan Cásca: The day after Easter Sunday (Domhnach Cásca). Also coincides with the commemoration of the Easter Rising. First Monday in May: May Day [5] Lá Bealtaine: First observed in 1994. [1] [6] Corresponds with the traditional festival of Bealtaine. First Monday in June: June Holiday: Lá Saoire i mí an Mheithimh: First ...
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The following is a timeline of actions during The Troubles which took place in the Republic of Ireland between 1969 and 1998. It includes Ulster Volunteer Force bombings such as the Dublin and Monaghan bombings in May 1974, and other loyalist bombings carried out in the 1970s, '80s and '90s, the last of which was in 1997.
Award-winning performing arts group Macnas have been holding an annual Halloween Parade in Dublin since 2013, with last year’s parade seeing witches, zombie dancers and wolves shuffling down ...