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Sia (41) has just announced her new holiday album titled EVERYDAY IS CHRISTMAS! The cover art (below) features 'Dance Moms' dancer Maddie Ziegler (15) wearing a festive wig.
Sia's EVERYDAY IS CHRISTMAS will be released November 17 and features 10 songs including the lead single from the record 'Santa's Coming for US. Sia wrote the entire collection with the help of a Greg Kurstin.
Other songs like 'Puppies Are Forever,' 'Ho Ho Ho,' and 'Candy Cane Lane' are also featured on the album! We can't wait!
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Aaron Fernandes - April 8, 2019 0
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Aaron Fernandes - April 17, 2018 0
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Sia Christmas Album Stream and Download
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Sia, 41, has just released her 2017 Christmas album and it's available to stream right here! The record features completely new songs by the singer...
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The Worst Event in Twentieth-Century Irish History? 1916 in Perspective
Paper from a conference held at Trinity College, Dublin on 21 and 22 April 2006, organised by The Ireland Institute and Dublin University History Society.
Author: Charles Townshend
It's a great pleasure to be here at the beginning of the real Easter week anniversary. I am very conscious that you will all have been through something of a barrage of discussion about the commemoration of the Easter Rising. I have rather been out of it. In fact, I was in France on the Sunday, I didn't even see a television report of what happened. But, as I say, I know that suddenly, and perhaps belatedly, it has become possible to discuss this question publicly and to do something about it. So, it's a big change from the experience I've had most of my life working on some aspects of Irish history. What I want to do tonight under this somewhat provocative title, which is taken from Kevin Myers – and I don't actually intend to present a lot of Irish commentary on the meaning of the Rising in that vein; what I'll try to do is say a little bit more about English perceptions, which I think may be slightly less familiar to you – what I want to try to do is get a sense of the general view of the place of 1916 in modern Irish history. This is the time of the year, of course, when people like me are busily engaged in reading masses of undergraduate essays. We always like to come up with the interesting versions of history that our students come up with, and it can be a sort of cruel blood sport, but it's not really. I just picked out one from a clutch of essays I've been reading on the course that I'm teaching at the moment on twentieth-century Irish history: a student who refers to the 1916 Rising as 'that fateful night'; three times, 'that night' is referred to; since we have anonymous marking, I haven't the faintest idea who that student is, but I am going to be very interested to find out what on earth he or she thinks was happening on that fateful night. In fact, the only thing that is said about the Rising is that 'the deep gorge between Catholics and Protestants was brought out for all to see', which I think is an interesting observation, and I'll come back to it in a moment. But, to rise somewhat above the level of second year undergraduates, I want to give you a sense of some of the ways in which 1916 has recently been characterised, because it bears on the way in which I am going to try to put a perspective on it.
The phrase used about it by Ruth Dudley Edwards is: 'an orgy of violence in which hundreds of innocent Irish people died'. A still more serious historian, David Fitzpatrick, has characterised it very pithily as 'reckless, bloody, sacrificial, and unsuccessful'. As I say, I don't want to go on with these, but I thought I'd just give you an instance from the British press recently, an article about the Easter Sunday commemoration in the Daily Telegraph, because I think it's a capsule view of the Rising that is very characteristic of the English perspective, and it goes like this: 'More than four hundred people were killed during the rebellion, when Britain, with the support of more than a hundred thousand Irish soldiers, was in the grip of the Great War'. That, I think, from a British perspective is a wholly uncontentious way of looking at it, but I would suggest that what is interesting about it is this phrase: 'in the grip of the Great War'. There is a suggestion here that Britain was involuntarily involved in this vast power struggle and had not deliberately engaged in it at all, but was somehow in the grip of it, whereas the people who started the Rebellion in Dublin were able to pick and choose their actions. I think that's a perspective which will echo from time to time through what I'm going to try to say tonight. What I really want to do is sort out what I think are the negative evaluations of 1916 under three headings, and they come out something like this: the Rising was unjustified; it was ineffective; and it was pernicious. I want to try to survey and weigh up the arguments that are bandied around under each of these headings.
Let me start with the concept of the justification of the Rising, and I am going to quote Ruth Dudley Edwards again because it is such fun. In fact, I think she got this from Kevin Myers, but the question goes like this: 'What right had the 1916 insurgents to start killing innocent Irish people in Dublin?' So, what right?, that's a question. It is a good question, and I think the answer to it would have to start probably with the words of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic itself, which I'm sure you have off by heart, but I'm just going to quote a bit of it because it is germane to what I am going to say. 'In every generation', Pearse wrote, 'the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty: six times during the past three hundred years they have asserted it in arms. Standing on that fundamental right, and again asserting it in arms … We hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades-in-arms to the cause of its freedom'. So, what do we make of this? Self-evident poppycock, perhaps; or at best, perhaps, intolerable elitism, with a tiny unrepresentative minority claiming to act for the nation as a whole. That I think is very much the view that Ruth Dudley Edwards is espousing. So, I want to think about this question of the tiny unrepresentative minority and whether it has a right to do anything. I think the view that the unrepresentativeness disbars them from taking any kind of action is only tenable if you are prepared to dismiss the whole of nationalist ideology as such. Nationalism, I think, is pretty well known. It's not an ideology that wells up spontaneously through the medium of the masses or the public; it is characteristically, in its historical development, an elite programme. It aims to rescue and arouse a national consciousness that is perceived, by an educated minority invariably, as being in mortal danger. That's how nationalism gets going. If nations had to wait for their sovereign independence until the whole national community reached the pitch of mortal combat, I think very few, if any, nation states would be in existence today.
Of course, many liberals would say, 'so much the better'; and here, perhaps, is the underlying issue. As President McAleese recently complained, some people cannot use the word 'nationalism' without putting the word 'narrow' before it. So, narrow nationalism is seen as something that is inherently bad. Is it the wrong thing to do to call nationalism narrow? I think this is a difficult question. The term 'broad nationalism' may not be actually oxymoronic, but it certainly doesn't fit our sense of what really goes on in the world. Nationalism did start out as a broad, almost a cosmopolitan, concept in the time of Mazzini in the nineteenth century. Mazzini believed that membership of the national community would make people better members of a world community, that it was somehow a path to ever expanding public social consciousness. That very broad, optimistic idea of nationalism was very powerful, and it shaped the whole post-war settlement after the First World War, the Versailles settlement. But, I think it was wrong, demonstrably. 'Nation shall speak peace unto nation', that's the wonderful motto of the British Broadcasting Corporation, founded in 1924 in the midst of this kind of Versailles-League of Nations-self-determination optimism. But, I think it has to rank as one of the most deluded hopes of all time. 'Nation shall silence nation' probably would be a better motto for the century that followed, a century of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and I think that we have to admit that nationalism is by nature self-centred, generates a resentment; it is defensive-aggressive; it has almost limitless paranoid potential. It's always about defining yourself against others, against outsiders who represent a threat. And, in this sense, Irish nationalism, I think, is no different from any other form of nationalism, except in so far as its geographical location limits its physical scope for finding enemies. I think the fact that nationalism is by nature narrow doesn't necessarily make it wrong or unjustified, and it certainly doesn't make it less likely to survive as the dominant ideology of political identity for the present and the foreseeable future. So, liberals who don't like it have to live with it, and I think in a sense they have to learn to love it as pretty much the only viable basis for a democratic polity. I think there has been a kind of liberal conspiracy to always look at the authoritarian, the illiberal potential of nationalism, and not to quite recognise that, actually, every functioning democratic state, pretty much every functioning democratic state, rests on what is believed to be a national community.
So, I think we can learn to love nationalism, but I think there is another moral charge against these elitists who claim to speak in the name of the nation, at a slightly lower level of generality. It relates to Pearse's phrase 'pledging our lives and the lives of our comrades'; there's a suggestion, quite often made, that the planners of the Rising deliberately put their followers in harm's way without their consent. In other words, they tricked them: this was a deception. Here, actually, there is a lot of consonance with the British concern immediately after the Rising to get the rebels to declare that they had no idea what they were getting in to, to basically say that their leaders had fooled them. The aim of the British then was to disembarrass themselves of a rather large group of internees, most of whom weren't a big threat to them. But, the aim of modern critics is to convict the Republican leadership, or specifically Pearse and MacDermott, I think, because, James Connolly never seems to be accused of this deception. But, the rest of them are certainly quite routinely convicted of lying not just to Eoin MacNeill, their notional superior in the Irish Volunteer movement, about their intentions. A recent historian, Peter Hart, in his new biography of Michael Collins, uses the phrase: 'other lies were told in order to fool the non-republican Volunteers into joining the revolt'.
So, these are heady charges, and they're not just made by modern revisionist historians; they start really right at the time, by men who did feel that they has been fooled and lied to. Sean Fitzgibbon was, I think, one of the first, if not the first, to use the word 'lie' rather than a milder word like 'deceive' or 'mislead' about the information he got from Pádraig Pearse. I'll just read you a little bit of Fitzgibbon's recollections: 'I asked Pearse if he had given Connolly any promise or had pledged the Volunteers. Pearse said no. His right knee kept quivering as he spoke. He kept raising his right foot slightly, tapping the ground with it, like a horse pawing, as he answered my questions. He was lying, for at that time the date of the Rising had been decided upon'. Now, if you accept that, it is certainly a less than edifying vision of leadership. The deception that is used by the planners of the Rising is allegedly, in the words of Diarmuid Lynch, 'a necessary ruse of war to protect the secret plans', but I think we can suggest that Connolly's famous openness (he never made any secret of the fact that he was planning to rebel as soon as the opportunity arose) would not have worked any less well than this secrecy. After all, nobody suggested at the time, or later as far as I know, that MacNeill would have actually given away the plans if he had been told of them, and, indeed, Connolly told him very directly of his. So, I think there is a question about this secrecy, which is rather difficult to resolve.
Let me just think about one of the key instances of the deception, the notorious Castle document, routinely described, I think even by Republican sympathisers, as, not perhaps a lie, but a fabrication, a forgery. I've always assumed, of course, that it was a forgery, because Desmond Ryan said it was, and that was good enough for me for a while. But, I wonder whether the critics may not have been too quick to dismiss it as a complete fabrication. I wonder now whether the hints that were dropped to MacNeill – apparently, in the view of his biographer, to deceive him early in Holy Week – that the British plan was being smuggled out of the Castle by a sympathetic official, whether that wasn't actually pretty much a description of what was going on. There was not just one official, of course, but in this particular case one official was smuggling this material out. If Grace Plunkett's recollection is correct, her fiancé Joe deciphered the instructions brought out to him by Eugene Smith, while she sat on his bed taking notes. Was this, I wonder, just an extraordinary charade for her benefit? Somehow, I doubt it. It's impossible to resolve this entirely because, frustratingly, no official copy of the plan, the military plans for the arrest of the Republican leadership, the Volunteer leadership, has ever appeared. I can't explain this, because it's inconceivable, even under the amiable regime of General Friend, that there was no plan; and there must have been a plan, but it's a plan essentially for the action to be taken in the event of conscription being imposed and mass resistance to this. As I say, we know that there was a plan; I think the Castle document was more or less this plan; it was, the current phrase is 'sexed up', it was sexed up by Joseph Plunkett, but I don't think it was a forgery. I think we know that the British authorities were thinking repeatedly about carrying out arrests, they just never managed to bring themselves to the point of doing it.
So, I have doubts about the extent of these deceptions in various ways. We don't have time to go on in that direction. The question I really want to raise at the end of this is the question about whether the rank and file of the Volunteers actually needed to be deceived, misled, and lied to in order to get them to take part in the Rising, because that really is the implication, if not the explicit point that is being made by historians like Peter Hart. There is a view that somehow Sinn Féin was hijacked by the Fenians, that the description of 1916 as a 'Sinn Féin rebellion' was a pernicious misunderstanding that started with the British press and, perhaps, the British police, and that somehow there is a way in which these innocent ordinary nationalists are shouldered, or hijacked, into a kind of action that they'd never have conceived of taking part in. But, it seems to me from reading many, many of their own accounts – which admittedly are all written after the event, in the late teens, and this is one of the difficulties in assessing them – but, I'm fairly convinced that most of these Sinn Féiners moved quite comfortably, and even enthusiastically in many cases, to become separatists and, indeed, physical force men and women. Just to put a specific point on it, the question I would raise is how many of those who turned out for a second time in two days on Monday, 24 of April – remember, they'd been out on Sunday, sent back home, brought out again – how many of them were not ready to fight for freedom, however they may have conceived that? Not, I think, many; I think they knew what they were doing. I don't think they were fooled, and I don't think they needed to be. So, that is a kind of justification, I guess.
The last point on justification is the broader one that crops up as Ruth's second point. She raises why none of the leaders of the Rising ever stood for Parliament, and the point that's being made here, of course, is that if you have a parliamentary democracy, supposedly, violent action is illegitimate. If there are parliamentary, if there are democratic means of changing the order, then it is criminal to do it by violence. So, I think this raises the quite interesting, and certainly I can't answer it tonight, the question of whether Ireland, and the UK of which it was a part of at the time, was a democracy. Most people say well, yes it was, but it was a democracy with faults like any democracy. But, this one did have a particular fault, and I think it is one we do have to bear in mind. The fault is a kind of underlying fault line: when you really come to the crux you find that there is some very dramatic fracturing of the whole notion of a political community. In Ireland, this point does arrive, we actually know this to have happened in 1918 when conscription – it was never imposed – but when an Act was finally passed that seemed to be about to impose it. And at that point, the Catholic hierarchy turned against this, and this put them potentially in a very awkward position, because they had never actually repudiated the Union, they never repudiated the right of the UK parliament to legislate for Ireland. But, on this particular issue they did; and the way they did it, just to use one phrase, the Bishop of Clonfert argued that conscription was 'an invasion of the fundamental rights of the nation'. Well, I don't think you have to say any more than that; this is a senior churchman, who is, I think, really giving voice to the fundamental fault lines inside the UK and the sense that the basic notion of there being a community which could be the basis of a democratic community does not exist.
Anyway, let me now turn to the argument that the Rising was ineffective. There are two radically opposite views of the Rising's effect: one was that it achieved more in five days than the Parliamentary Nationalist Party had achieved in fifty years; the other is that it set back the national cause a hundred years. Both of these are obviously early reactions, because neither of them is quite tenable. However harshly you may judge the failure of parliamentary nationalism, it's true also that the Rebellion failed to achieve its immediate object; I think pretty demonstrably it didn't destroy the separatist movement either. So, the critique of 1916 came to rest on a somewhat more nuanced proposition, which is that the Rising was, as Eoin MacNeill and Bulmer Hobson long argued, unnecessary or irrelevant. Yeats's famous (or infamous) question in his poem Easter 1916: 'was it needless death after all, for England may keep faith', i.e. may eventually grant home rule anyway, is really one of the earliest and most powerful of these revisionist questions about whether 1916 was actually necessary or useful. And the revisionist argument, I think, goes on to say that even if England didn't keep faith, the great revival of nationalist sentiment in 1918 would have happened regardless, would have happened as soon as the threat of conscription became a reality. I think that this is a very powerful argument, and it's very difficult to assess because it's a counterfactual, of course. We know that the conscription crisis was provoked by the military action, not of the 1916 rebels, but of their 'gallant allies in Europe', and we know its effect was dramatic. But, to argue that it would have been just as decisive if 1916 hadn't happened is certainly not a straightforward proposition. What I've tried to argue in my recent book is that the Sinn Féin that was able to capitalise on the swelling tide of public hostility to the conscription threat was a very different organisation from the one that existed in 1915. It was the Sinn Féin that had accommodated to and been transformed by 1916; it had changed, not utterly perhaps, but significantly. I think 1916 really did have quite a dramatic political effect, and, if nothing else, it broke what had been a very powerful psychological barrier, a sense of the limits of the possible, which I think home rule very much rested on, an idea of what could be achieved, and I think that 1916 suddenly and dramatically expands that sense of what can be achieved.
So, I think it is possible to argue that, contrary to David Fitzpatrick, the Rising is very effective, but one has also to admit that it has effects that are not intended, and are perhaps very unfortunate from the point of view of its instigators. The aspect, perhaps, of the revisionist argument that is most unpopular with traditionalist nationalists, as I understand it, is the argument that, well, going back to my student who says 'the deep gorge between Catholics and Protestants was brought out for all to see'. Now, that's not the first thing that would strike you about 1916, but it certainly comes in fairly soon afterwards. By the middle of 1916, yes, that deep gorge, or whatever you want to call it, really is there for all to see, and there's no question, I think, that 1916 absolutely copper-fastened partition. It's inconceivable after 1916 that you'd have a united Ireland.
Whether it's conceivable before is a complicated question that I won't go into now, because all I want to do finally is to turn to the third of these condemnatory categories: the pernicious effect, the long-term effect of the Rising. 'The evil legacy', I'm calling this, because a British commentator, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, delivered himself of an evaluation of the long-term impact of the Rising just a week before the ninetieth anniversary under this striking title, 'The evil legacy of the Easter Rising'; and in Wheatcroft's view, 'only in Ireland could anyone fail to see the connection between' the murder of Denis Donaldson in County Donegal shortly before and the 'noisy' celebration of the ninetieth anniversary of the Easter Rising. What is the connection in his view, we may ask. Wheatcroft says 'the Rising was a very strange affair'. Its claim to be a national rebellion was belied by the fact that 'the Irish Republican Brotherhood was a tiny sect with little popular following'. 'Sect', by the way, there is a weasel word if ever there was one. And he goes on to say, 'for every Volunteer who took part in the Rising' – and it's interesting to note that he puts the word Volunteer in inverted commas as well – 'for every Volunteer who took part in the Rising, there were a hundred Irishmen fighting on the Western Front for home rule, which had already been granted by the London government'. Instead of the beneficent future promised by home rule, Ireland became 'the most reactionary corner of Europe' as an independent state, and even now he suggests the Republic, he admits it's not a fascist state, and it is a democracy, but it's one with what he calls 'a hang-up and an internal contradiction. You realise this when you go into Leinster House in Dublin – The first things you see in the antechamber are three images. Ahead is the 1916 Proclamation, and on either side are two portraits of men in uniform – Cathal Brugha and Michael Collins – Both were killed in the savage little Irish Civil War of 1922-23, which succeeded the previous Troubles – And so here is the legislature of what claims to be, and indeed is, a parliamentary democracy; and here are three images celebrating bloody rebellion against parliamentary democracy'.
Now, I'm still searching for the connection between the Rising and the murder of Denis Donaldson, and what Geoffrey Wheatcroft offers us is a European perspective. He notes that although revisionist Irish historians have spent the last generation examining the creation of the state and its underlying myths, even the best of them tend towards insularity and have not noticed how Ireland fitted into a European pattern. And this pattern, he thinks, is that Pearse and company are really the forerunners of the irrationalist reaction against constitutional liberalism, in other words fascism. And if you follow the implications of Wheatcroft's little word 'sect', or indeed David Fitzpatrick's term 'Pearse's suicide squads', which he used in a recent historical work, you can identify a new generation of progeny, perhaps even more alarming than fascism. And in case we missed that point, let me give you another English commentator, Martin Kettle, who rams it in for us: it's 'the legacy', he's talking about here, 'of a state born in martyrdom and violence, created around the romance of the deed, whose origins are steeped in the pseudo-religious cult of the transformative blood sacrifice and purging authenticity of the acts of a committed minority that Al-Qaeda or Hamas could recognise'. Maybe this is all a trifle overblown, you may be thinking. Despite the evidence, Wheatcroft presents in support of his perspective – there is not much of it, but it is a newspaper article: Pearse's use of the word 'blood', for example, he thinks, is the very language the National Socialists would use. That's an interesting, debateable point, but let's move on to the amazing fact that the Nazi martyrs of the failed Munich putsch numbered, guess what, sixteen, 'Sixteen Dead Men'. Wheatcroft thinks, 'It was Ireland's misfortune that the greatest European poet of the age should have been Irish and have extolled the Rising'. Yeats's Easter 1916 he pronounces to be 'haunting but morally repugnant'.(I am sure if I could see your faces there would be some dropped jaws at the idea that Yeats extolled the rising). But, it seems to be the connection that is being made here in Geoffrey Wheatcroft's and Martin Kettle's minds is that there is a direct, unmistakeable, and unambiguous path from 1916 to 'men who murdered children'. In fact, Wheatcroft quotes part of Yeats's wonderful, agonised introspection. It goes something like:
I lie awake night after night
And never get the answers right.
Did that play of mine send out
Certain men the English shot?
He prefers to phrase it: 'Did that poem of mine send out certain men who murdered children?, or hundreds of men and women, up to and including Donaldson'. It's interesting that he doesn't really notice what I think strikes us, which is the ambivalence and the self-doubt in Yeats's approach. But, is there here a suggestion that Pearse and company were terrorists who killed indiscriminately, is that the connection? Or is it that the undeniably dignified words of the Proclamation (which I wonder if Wheatcroft has actually read) are rendered worthless or meaningless by the fact that subsequent terrorists claim to be the true heirs of Connolly and Pearse? He doesn't say, so there is a missing connection here, but we can try to fill in these gaps.
Wheatcroft doesn't try to convict the 1916 rebels of being terrorists personally, but Ruth Dudley Edwards's phrase 'orgy of violence', I think, does clearly suggest that the killing of hundreds of innocent people was deliberate. So, we have a double indictment: 1916 represented the principle of political violence as against democracy, and it also manifested a lust, a physical lust for bloodshed. And these are serious issues. I think on the second of them, it's not hard to acquit Pearse himself and most of his comrades-in-arms of the charge of orgiastic violence. It may seem rather overblown, but it has been made in various ways: there is, for example, the suggestion that the GPO was chosen as the rebel headquarters in order to maximise the damage to the most commercially, the richest commercial heart of the city of Dublin, and I think that's the kind of assertion that you have to start thinking about, could there be anything in it? Of course, unfortunately, we can't really tell – the charge is pure speculation, because, as it happens, we have no idea. Maybe, someone can enlighten me here why the GPO was chosen. All, I think, one can say is that David Fitzpatrick's word 'reckless' is perhaps fair here. Pearse had evidently given no thought at all to the impact of his actions on the ordinary citizens of Dublin, and as the scale of the destruction dawned on him – and we should, I suppose, enter a mild reservation that the really big damage was done by British artillery, but that again shows how little the rebels had really thought or understood what was likely to be the consequence of their actions – but, as soon as the destruction really became big, Pearse moved fairly quickly to end the Rebellion, and it was specifically the inevitability of civilian casualties that led him finally to decide against the last break out that was being planned by what was left of the GPO garrison, after they had evacuated the GPO and gotten into Moore Street on the Saturday morning. I believe the story that it was the sight of a couple of poor people lying in the street, shot from the British barricade at Great Britain Street, that was the thing that tipped Pearse to seek surrender terms. So, I think that the orgy of violence thing is quite frankly absurd, but it's harder to acquit the 1916ers of the wider charge of valorising the use of political violence. It would be a distortion to say they made a cult of violence, but they certainly embraced a sort of diluted form of militarism, which privileged soldierly qualities: discipline, incorruptibility, self-sacrifice – the converse of the supposed weaknesses of professional politicians. And this is always a potentially dangerous system of values for the long-term survival of democratic politics.
Having acknowledged that, though, I think what's quite striking about the actual political behaviour of these political soldiers, particularly when they got into the position to really create a state or a pseudo-state in 1919 to 1923, is how literally they cleaved to the norms of constitutional behaviour, learned from the British, and I think also from the American example. So, rather than, as Wheatcroft has it, celebrating bloody rebellion against parliamentary democracy, Sinn Féin and Dáil Éireann, which really was a one-party quasi-state, with virtually no political background, no political experience, instinctively replicated Westminster methods. I think Wheatcroft doesn't know this; but, in fact, it's not necessarily to their credit that they did so. But, these were people who took state-building as seriously as any insurgents anywhere in the world, I think, have ever done. And perhaps the force Wheatcroft, Kettle, and others would like it to have, this charge of illiberal terror-spawning elitism, would need some adjustment of Irish and world history. Wheatcroft minimises the significance of the IRB, presumably in part to imply that without 1916 there would have been no physical force tradition in Ireland; so it's 1916 that creates the capacity for this kind of extremism. That surely is quite implausible. There would always have been republican irreconcilables, even if home rule had gone through; maybe only a few, but, in fact, you only need a few to sustain an group like the Fenians or the IRA. And still more to the point, Wheatcroft writes as if there were no other terrorists in the world before 1916. But, 1916 was the centre point of a war that had been triggered by a spectacular act of Serbian nationalist terrorism, and an act that was far more influential on the world than anything that happened in Ireland. So, I think this attempt to provide an international perspective, admirable though it is in principle, and all of us revisionists should take note, but, in this particular form it doesn't work.
I think there is a form in which we might, just by way of conclusion, be able to find a more useful European parallel, and that's with Germany, a country that's had a lot of trouble coming to terms with its past. The German word for this, 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung', is a wonderful word, and it may seem that it is a peculiarly German word for a peculiarly German problem. The two cases may seem wildly disparate. As far as I know, even Kevin Myers doesn't compare 1916 with the Holocaust. But, I think the underlying issue, how to construct a serviceable yet not self-deceiving national self-image, is really the same in both cases. I don't think anybody, and probably least of all Geoffrey Wheatcroft, tells the Germans that the best way to go about it, the best way to create a future, is to keep quiet about the past or pretend it never happened. Ireland has what the Germans call a 'Historikerstreit', a struggle of historians – that's what revisionism is all about-but, like the German Historikerstreit, it's about the reconciliation of cold-eyed and sometimes iconoclastic realism with the preservation of some positive collective identity. And I think 1916 is inescapably a central point in this; it has to be dealt with; it has to be discussed.
So, I'm not going to call it the worst event in twentieth-century Irish history, which I think is a debating point rather than a serious analytical proposition. But, 1916 was effectively written out of Irish history for something like a generation, certainly in anything like the heroic form it assumed for most ordinary people. There's a generation, in a sense, after 1966, for which you could almost say, in an extraordinary role reversal, Eoin MacNeill became the hero and Pearse the villain of the Rising. What is interesting, I think, is that we are coming out of that phase; it may have been a necessary readjustment, but I think we are coming to a phase where we can perhaps get a better balance in our perception of this. 1916, I think, can't really be reduced to the category of a crime, a folly, or a misfortune, to use Edward Gibbons's famous phrase. Whatever the statistics about minorities and so on, the 1916 rebels do seem to have had a grip of the zeitgeist, to use yet another German word, a sense of where things were going. They had the capacity to make things go, which is really what actually counts in politics.
❖ Introduction: 1916 in Context
❖ The Worst Event in Twentieth-Century Irish History? 1916 in Perspective
❖ The Easter Rebellion: Poetry or Drama?
❖ The Irish Republic: A Project Still to be Completed
❖ 1916 and All That – A Personal Memoir

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Q: When scrolling add a new class when the new right element is fully visible Trying to a create a timeline box with scroll that has overflown items. When scrolling all items fully visible should get the visible class and whenever a new item becomes fully visible should get the visible class. Im missing some math or logic here, to make it accurate. Any tips or alternative methods would be very helpful.
Codepen: https://codepen.io/rKaiser/pen/BaKZgoX

.history {
  position: relative;
  overflow-y: hidden;
}
.history-inner {
  display: inline-flex;
}
.item {
  width:120px;
  height:300px;
  display:inline-block;
  border:1px solid #ccc;
  background: #777;
  transition: all .3s ease;
  &.wide {
    width:170px;
  }
  &.visible {
    background: green !important;
  }
}
.item:nth-child(even){
  background: #666;
}

js
  var historyW = $('.history').outerWidth();
  var historyInnerW = $('.history-inner').outerWidth();
  var currentHiddenItem = historyW + 5; // bigger than history
  var historyPxScr = $('.history').scrollLeft();
  var entryNum = 1;
  var itemMargin = 0;

  $('.history').on('resize scroll', function() {
    historyW = $('.history').outerWidth();
    historyPxScr = $('.history').scrollLeft();
    console.log( historyW + historyPxScr + ' sum');
    console.log( currentHiddenItem + ' curr');
    // console.log( historyInnerW + ' iii');
    if ( historyW + historyPxScr < currentHiddenItem - itemMargin) {
      $('.item.i'+entryNum).addClass('visible');
    } else {
      currentHiddenItem += $('.item.i'+entryNum).outerWidth();
      itemMargin = $('.item.i'+entryNum).outerWidth();
      //console.log(itemMargin + 'IM');
      entryNum += 1;
      console.log(entryNum);
      console.log(currentHiddenItem);
    }
  });

A: I would go for something like this, tried to do it in the jQuery way ;-).
var isFullyVisible = function(elem) {
  return elem.getBoundingClientRect().right - window.innerWidth < 0;
}

var checkItemVisibility = function () {
  $('.history .item').each(function (index, elem) {
     if (isFullyVisible(elem)) {
       $(elem).addClass('visible');
     } else {
       $(elem).removeClass('visible');
     }
   });
}

$(document).ready(function() {
  checkItemVisibility();
  $('.history').on('scroll', checkItemVisibility);
});

Tested this code in your codepen and it worked.

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Medical books often describe sleeplessness either "primary" or secondary insomnia, depending on whether the lack of sleep has an identifiable, medical cause. For you to find the right approach to dealing with insomnia, however, further distinctions are necessary. Here is a quick summary of the major types of insomnia.
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Dhoni's long career rhetoric!
May 28, 09, 21:02 | Update: May 28, 2009, 21:03
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has spent 15 years in international cricket. In this long career, India has given many successes. Two World Cups, one Twenty20 and one ODI. Apart from this, India has given two Asia Cups and once the Champions Trophy. It is believed that this is his last World Cup.
Dhoni is playing for national team even after 37 years. Although his bat is not very sharp as before, his fitness and cricket brain are still questionable. He is reliable behind the wicket.
His proof that Dhoni is not yet out has been found in today's preparatory match against Bangladesh. He scored a magnificent 113 in 78 balls.
His former team-mate Yuvraj Singh said, "But Dhoni's brain is very sharp. He knows when to take a single and when to play big shot. She is always hard working. Seeing him, there is no substitute for labor. I still remember that during the 2011 World Cup, there was a two-day rest for seven days. Dhoni batted for seven days. They used to bat for a long period of time. He is so industrious that he has been in international cricket for so many years.
India's greatest captain to retire from Test cricket in 2014 Dhoni, who won 199 trips in the one-day internationals in 110 matches, won in 110 matches. India won 41 of the 72 matches in his Twenty20 tournament. That's why he is called the best captain of India ever.
Due to the outstanding ability to make the right decision at the right time and to keep the head cool in the end, the example is for everyone as captain. Now see how he is doing in this World Cup.
Bangladesh has a big rate in the preparation match
'Wonderful things to do in Pakistan cricket'


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    Apache Ant file for IniEditor
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  <property name="build" location="build"/>
  <property name="javadoc" location="javadoc"/>
  <property name="website" location="website"/>
  <property name="dist" location="dist"/>
  <property name="test" location="test"/>

  <target name="init">
    <!-- Create the time stamp -->
    <tstamp/>
    <!-- Create the build directory structure used by compile -->
    <mkdir dir="${build}"/>
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    <!-- Compile the java code from ${src} into ${build} -->
    <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}" includeantruntime="true">
	  <compilerarg value="-Xlint"/>
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  <target name="compiletest" depends="compile" description="compile unit tests">
    <!-- Compile the java code from ${src} into ${build} -->
    <javac srcdir="${test}" destdir="${build}" includeantruntime="true">
	  <compilerarg value="-Xlint"/>
	</javac>
  </target>

  <target name="javadoc" depends="init" description="generate javadoc">
    <mkdir dir="${javadoc}"/>
    <javadoc sourcepath="${src}" destdir="${javadoc}" packagenames="com.nikhaldimann.inieditor"/>
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  <target name="dist" depends="clean,compile,javadoc" description="generate the distribution">
    <!-- Create the distribution directory -->
    <mkdir dir="${dist}/inieditor/lib"/>
    <!-- Copy files -->
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  	   <include name="**/*.java"/>
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  	   <include name="**/*.*"/>
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  	   <include name="*.xml"/>
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LEEDS are aiming to finalise a deal for Southampton ace Fraser Forster this week to boost their Premier League promotion hopes.
The former England international is looking to secure first-team football after falling behind Alex McCarthy and Angus Gunn in the pecking order at Saint Mary's.
Forster used to be the club's No.1 but he fell out of favour last season after a string of poor performances, with his last senior appearance coming on Boxing Day 2017.
Leeds boss Marcelo Bielsa is now prepared to offer Forster a lifeline at Elland Road as he looks to provide competition for Bailey Peacock-Farrel.
The Northern Ireland international has been first-choice for the Championship leaders but Leeds are without back-up following Jamal Blackman's season-ending injury.
The Championship leaders take on Stoke next week and Leeds want Forster on board in time for that game, according to Starsport.
Bielsa has prioritised signing a new stopper in the transfer window and SunSport previously reported that Leeds were also interested in Real Madrid keeper Kiko Casilla.
Forster, who joined Southampton from Celtic in 2014 for £10million, had previously been a target for Turkish giants Fenerbahce and Besiktas.
The 30-year-old had earned rave reviews for his performances in the 2016/17 season, playing every league game, while also playing in the Europa League group stages.
But the ex-Newcastle keeper was dropped by former boss Mark Hughes after a series of poor performances last term, with McCarthy retaining his place in goal this season.
There were rumours Ralph Hasenhuttl was prepared to give Forster a fresh start at the club but his latest comments suggest his career at Southampton is finished.
The Austrian said: "I had to make the choice to have two strong keepers with Angus Gunn and Alex McCarthy and I think they did it well. Both.
"It can be that Fraser can take a game in the Under-23s, because he needs to get back in a position where he is an option for other clubs maybe, and that is what we try to force in the future."


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Hacker leaks Bangladesh Intelligence classified Emails
Posted by pankaj
Indian hacker, Godzilla once again hit Bangladesh government server. Hacker told us about his latest cyber attack on Directorate General of Forces Intelligence Bangladesh (DGFI – http://www.dgfi.gov.bd) server . He claimed to back up all confidential mails in the server and list of all their agents around the globe.
Bangladesh Intelligence webserver compromised : ehack
Hacker taunt Bangladesh govt , "To all stupid Intelligence people of Bangladesh do you know what is security??, Iam really felling pitty for you."
Through a paste note, hacker leak one sample mail (funny one), which is the conversation between Dewan Mamoon and DGFI Director. Some words from email are, "I love the CIA. I love the DGFI. I love the Bangladesh armed forces. I love America and I love Bangladesh." and "I know that you are the ones to thank for sponsoring me in Bangladesh and the CIA for sponsoring me in America."
Compromised Intelligence server claimed to be full of sensitive information. In past year, Godzilla had hacked many Bangladeshi and Pakistani Government and Military websites.
Original post at – thehackernews
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Posted in cyber crime, hacking, india, security
Tags: bangladesh, godzilla, hacker, hacking, india
Child Porn on Indian Government websites
One of the 'The Hacker News' reader inform us today about porn content on some Indian Government websites. After analyzing such websites, we came across more than 30 sub domains belongs to 'entegramam.gov.in' . Where 'entegramam' means "My village" and all sub domains of this website are names of the different cities of Kerala state.
Child Porn on Indian Governments : ehack
The websites are in Malayalam language and most of the sites are powered by Joomla and Drupal (older vulnerable versions) with discussion forums on them. On our further analyze we found that time stamp of the Porn articles posted on forum dated back to "2012/08/30 16:00".
That means, Government websites hosting Child Porn content from last four months and authorities or the moderators of the website are not aware about the issue. On a simple Google search, one can found all such pages : site:gov.in "nude" for further reports and analyzing.
Google also giving notification "This site may be compromised" for few websites in same search, showing that some of these websites are also compromised by hackers.What if Government websites itself serving Porn ? Child Porn is not legal in any country and shameful act. Child pornography in India is also illegal. In February 2009, the Parliament of India passed the Information Technology Bill," banning the creation and transmission of child pornography. The bill enables India's law enforcement agencies to take strict action against those seeking child pornography. For example, browsing for child pornography on the Internet can lead to a 5 year term of imprisonment and a 1 lakh fine".These Forums are actually started by Kerala Government as a project to share information regarding "Education", "Health", "Agriculture", "Tourist", "Sports", "Science" and more. We found that threads on forums are active to current dates, there should be some moderators also who look for abused or illegal content, but in this case ,Government host and forget !Government always give stats , why no reasons for Lack in Security ? Recently, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team ( Cert-In) proudly share report in media that over 14,000 websites have been hacked by cyber criminals till October this year. Even the actual number is 10 times they claimed, but the point is, why they never mention the reasons of lack in security ?
Running responsible Government websites without monitoring or moderators is not a good security practice at all. We Request authorities , if you host something – please moderate them.
Original Post at The Hacker News
Tags: anonymous, government, hacking, india, security
India developing own OS to boost cybersecurity
Summary: Defense Research and Development Organization is creating country's own operating system to reduce its dependence on foreign operating systems, which it says may contain security risks.
india's OS : ehack
The Indian Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) is developing the country's own operating system (OS) in a bid to establish a more robust cybersecurity environment.
India currently is dependent on many imported OSes based on Windows and Linux, which are likely to have malicious worms and security issues, DRDO's Director-General VK Saraswat said at the Navigation and Communication (NAVCOM) conference, The Times of India reported Thursday. Hence, it is essential India builds its own operating system, he said.
Saraswat added the DRDO is 18 months into a programme in which 150 engineers across the country had been working on creating an Indian OS. It will take another three years before this platform will be ready, he said.
The made-in-India OS does not involve any foreign investments and is exclusively "India's effort", Saraswat noted. He also advised defence researchers and scientists to start working together with the industry, DRDO, and other scientific departments to drive the development of the OS, so "[India is] independent from what is coming from [the] outside world".
This initiative is part of India's latest efforts to beef up its cybersecurity. Earlier this week, the government unveiled a five-year plan to revamp the country's cybersecurity posture, whereby, operations will be coordinated and connected to major critical infrastructure agencies across India, to monitor real-time information and react faster to cyberattacks.
Original Post at Zdnet
Posted in cyber crime, india, operating system, security
Tags: cyber crime, cyber security, drdo, india, operating system, security
India government unveils five-year plan to revamp cybersecurity
Summary: Operations will be coordinated and connected to major critical infrastructure agencies in the country, to monitor real-time information and react faster to cyberattacks.
Cyber Security : ehack
The Indian government has set in motion a five-year project to revamp cybersecurity apparatus of critical sectors in the country to meet the growing challenge of cyberattacks.
The National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Center (NCIIPC), the agency to coordinate cybersecurity operations for critical infrastructure across the country, has been given this responsibility, The Times of India reported on Tuesday.
The five-year plan will be prepared by the agency to revamp and integrate the cybersecurity apparatus of all critical infrastructrure such as power, transportation, water, telecommunications and defence, the agency said at a presentation.
NCIIPC also plans to set up a sectoral Computer Emergency Response Team (CERTs) that would be connected to it, and will install censors on all critical systems to provide real-time information to its command and control (C&C) center about any cyberattack to formulate a quick response.
Under a newly defined mandate, NCIIPC will look after critical sectors with high dependency on computer and information technology (IT), while other sectors will be under India's CERT, CERT-IN.
"There are also plans to open a Cyber Security Operation Centre, a [round-the-clock] control room for real-time information and response, and a National Institute of Critical Information and Infrastructure Protection for training of chief information security officers (CISOs). We will also issue daily cyberalerts," Muktesh Chander, NCIIPC center director said, during the presentation.
According to sources who spoke to the Indian news site, this is part of the government's step to create awareness and ensure a robust security system in all critical government agencies. The task had also been divided into five phases, and once agencies set up their security infrastructure, it will be connected to the NCIIPC.
Shivshankar Menon, national security advisor, who also addressed the gathering, stressed on the participation of the private sector
"The NCIIPC is setting up a joint working group with representatives of industry assocations to bring out guidelines for protection of critical information infrastructure in India," he said.
India's critical infrastructure agencies are no stranger to cyberattacks. Just last week, a hacker group leaked Indian telco BSNL's passwords and database, calling for the withdrawal of a controversial legislation which allegedly suppresses freedom of speech and expression. In April, Chinese hackers allegedly planted a bug via flash drives on India's navy computers, which relayed sensitive data to China IP addresses.
Posted in cyber crime, india, security
Tags: cyber crime, cyber security, government, india, security


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Big Grin Productions
Toby Cochran & Adrian Ochoa
Toby: I'm the Founder & CEO of Big Grin Productions. Our mission at Big Grin is simple, we aim to put big 'ol grins on everyone's face with the work we create. Our work ranges from commercials or fortune 500 companies or smaller projects and we are currently developing our own stories. With over +15 years of industry experience, I personally love collaborating with artists from all over the world and putting teams together to achieve our mission!
Adrian: I'm a producer at Big Grin Productions. Before joining Big Grin, I spent 17 years at Pixar Animation Studios working on various films across multiple departments.
I then joined Toby at a Mobile Game Studio where I oversaw all the content for various mobile games. After 3 years I left to join a VR / AR start up who specialized in CG animated short films for Virtual Reality.
Two years later I then jumped at the chance to work with Toby again at Big Grin where we've worked on various animated projects.
My grandfather passed away in 1994 of ALS. At the time our family didn't know much about the disease so we got up to speed as quickly as we could.
Afterwards our family and friends would participate in the annual ALS walks and fundraisers to raise money and awareness.
Toby and Adrian
Toby: I personally do not have any family with this disease, but I have had friends lose loved ones from ALS. Years ago I participated in the Ice Bucket challenge and now I've been learning as much as I can about ALS since joining the project. ALS is not as widely funded, and I hope this film can change that while Luka takes the center stage for becoming the mascot for ALS worldwide.
We believe it's important to bring awareness. Our intention is, this film will change lives. I don't say that to sound all grand or mighty or all auteur but there are currently no animated films about a character with ALS let alone a film that can be used as a way to help open up a dialogue for parents and kids. This film will change all of that. We're excited to be working on this project because we believe that the power of animation can be leveraged to make a big impact in people's lives.
Adrian: Luka & The Lights will bring awareness to ALS. It will also serve as a way for adults to talk to kids about the disease and animation is the perfect medium to spread this message across the world, one that transcends language and cultures.
I am one of the producers on the film. I'm excited to work behind the scenes and help tell this touching story, to make people aware of ALS and to collaborate with amazing artists and storytellers across the world.
Toby: I am directing the film while helping Sascha and Anjo bring this story to life, it was important for us to stay true to their original vision of Luka while crafting a fun, unique and quirky world that Luka could live in. We have assembled some of the greatest talent around the world and we can't wait to begin the next phase in the project and begin animation. Everyone is in for a treat!


The Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and the President of Russia Vladimir Putin discussed Iran's military presence in Syria, as Radio Liberty reported.
"The biggest threat to the stability and security in the region comes from Iran and its representatives. We are determined to continue our aggressive actions against Iran's efforts, which calls for our destruction, and against its attempts to take hold in Syria," the Israeli Prime Minister stated.
Netanyahu's visit to Moscow was the first since the Syrian troops have accidentally hit the Russian transport aircraft reacting to the Israeli air strike in September 2018. 15 Russian servicemen died then.
It was noted that Russia is the main international ally of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, it has close ties with Iran.
As reported earlier, about 400 U.S. military men will remain in Syria after the planned withdrawal of the U.S. military contingent from this country in spring.


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Mettamodernist
Mettamodernist is a writer, poet and creative director.
They are the founder of CRTRXHAUS studios, an independent creative agency and AfroAbsurdism, an international movement of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. Using the lens of hip-hop, fashion, and deconstructive literary and art movements, Mettamodernist sits at the intersection of expressionism, and uses CRTRXHAUS studio as a vehicle to continue fusing multiple mediums to create an amalgamation of life itself.
Born between two worlds, Mettamodernist uses words, prose, and gritty super-imposed visuals to unveil the darkest recesses of humanity. Illuminating the crux between fashion, literature, and hip-hop, Mettamodernist's work aims to push the boundaries of human consciousness.
This exploration begins in Metta's upcoming novel BLKKK COCK/BLKKK PUSSY:1984½ a.k.a. THE DESTRUCTIVE INFLUENCES OF THE CRUEL SUPER-EGO, due in 2022.
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Day 7: Contribute.to
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A selection of contemporary artists reveal the main inspirations that feature in their work.
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Nine chosen artists reveal the creative projects they're working on in 2021.
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The nine artists were asked to describe their artistic practice in three words.


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How Much Does an App Cost?
Remember that the cost to bring an app to market go beyond a simple v1.0 budget. The costs are much more than the initial, UX, design, development, or project management dollars. There will be at a minimum budget required for ongoing updates and potentially, some server costs.
via How Much Does an App Cost: A Massive Review of Pricing and other Budget Considerations – savvy apps blog.
An interesting review on how much it would cost to build an app. If you are thinking of building one, this might be a good read.


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Euless is located in both Dallas and Fort Worth Commercial Zones, which are regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Approximately 130 carriers are certified and regularly serve Euless.