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By Miller, James Martin & H.S. Canfield. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
‘We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead; ‘ —W.B. Yeats ‘
Smoke in the sky
After the last echoes
of gunshots and screams
only their bloodstains
and memories remain
for Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day Twenty-four
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Frank J. Tassone 
Last year, for the 100th anniversary of the Rising, a woman general read the Proclamation of Independence. Countess Markiewicz would have been proud.
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