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🚴 Making plans for the weekend? 🚗

We'd be delighted to welcome you to Cloughjordan tomorrow and Sunday afternoon, where you can also pick up a copy of the newly published biography of Joseph MacDonagh.

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THOMAS MACDONAGH WAS EXECUTED 110 years ago today. Of this Tipperary man, it was said that "they all died well, but MacDonagh died like a prince," and this was likely due to the grace with which he possessed in the moments before he would die and his name would be etched so prominently into the historical record of Ireland.

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On this day, 110 years ago,the Easter Rising ended, and Thomas MacDonagh found himself reluctantly surrendering the Jacob's garrison of the Volunteers to the British army, who had, by the Rising's end, stationed an imposing 20,000 troopsin Dublin city in order to put down the rebellion.

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Thomas MacDonagh, joined by his younger brother John, would, on this day 110 years ago, lead the men of the 2nd Battalion of the Irish Volunteers who had answered his call to arms, alongside members of Cumann na mBan and Na Fianna Éireann, as well as Major John McBride, from St. Stephen’s Green to Jacob’s Biscuit Factory, the fortress like building which offered MacDonagh and his men a panoramic view of Dublin city throughout what would become the Easter Rising of 1916.

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The familial impact of the tragedy which the Irish revolutionary period wrought on theMacDonagh family can be summarised briefly by what is contained within the 1926 census return for Donagh and Barbara MacDonagh, Thomas and Muriel's children. Living as boarders in the home of a teacher named Esther Dowling, the full tragedy of the execution of Thomas in 1916, and Muriel’s 1917 death was borne out in a simple but lamentable statement which read ‘both parents dead’ in regards to Donagh and Barbara’s status in the new state.

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THE QUALITY OF MACDONAGH as a representative of the burgeoning Irish Republic was perfectly exemplified 110 years ago, in his role as the intermediary between his academic colleague at UCD, Eoin MacNeill, the Chief of Staff of the Volunteers at the time, and the military council of the IRB (onto which he had only just been co-opted in early April, 1916) who were seeking MacNeill’s support for what they planned to be a military strike against the British during Easter Week.

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WHILE A COMMANDANT IN THE IRISH VOLUNTEERS, and a key player in the military planning of the 1916 strike for Irish freedom, MacDonagh was active throughout April 1916 in both the recruitment and galvanising of the Irish Volunteers.

https://nationalarchives.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CSO-JD-2-244.pdf.

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IN EARLY APRIL, 1916, THOMAS MACDONAGH became the seventh and final member of the military council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, who were then finalising plans for the insurgency which would become known as The Easter Rising.

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ON THIS DAY IN 1878, Thomas MacDonagh, famed poet and revolutionary, was born to Joseph MacDonagh and Mary Parker, at their home in Cloughjordan, county Tipperary. #irishheritage #irishpoet #irishhistory #thomasmacdonagh #cloughjordan #tipperary #irishrevolutionaries

The marriage of Thomas MacDonagh and Muriel Gifford took place on this day.
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Join contemporary composer Dr. Alastair White @airfromnewplanets as he begins the ambitious task of adapting James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake for the musical stage.

This week-long open residency, curated by the writer Gemma A. Williams @gemmacurates, invites audiences to see opera in the making and witness how literature, theatre, fashion and music can intersect and redesign one another.

The open studio offers an opportunity to engage directly with this creative process and experience opera not as a finished product — but as a living, evolving form.

This inaugural event will lead to a series of works over the next decade and more: culminating in a festival 100 years after the book’s publication in 1939.

📆 Mon. November 17th, ⏰ launch 1pm, ticketed, Open Studio: ⏰ 10am-4pm daily until 23rd, Talk: Fri. Nov. 21st, ⏰ 7pm

📍Thomas MacDonagh Museum, Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary

💶 Free

DCCI Irish Design Week programme is now live in the link in bio.

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A huge thanks is due to the wonderful volunteers who gave their time and energy to ensure the success of the #ThomasMacDonaghHedgeSchool - all of these people worked quietly in the background and deserve a special mention…

Greg Whelan, Brenda Ainsworth, Denis Powell (sound engineer), Rose Kearney, Bríd ní Chumhaill, Lily Hodgins, Sheila McCarthy, Sarah Clerihan, Mac Sizeland and Darragh Johnson