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Wear an Easter Lily
Easter is only days away. This Sunday will mark 110 years since the momentous events of Easter Week 1916 and the declaration of Independence and equality contained in the Proclamation. It is also the centenary of the sale of the first Easter Lilies which were designed in 1925 by Cumann na mBan to raise funds for the Irish Republican Prisoners Dependants Fund.
In the 100 years since then thousands of women and men have been imprisoned in defence of the Irish peoples’ right to national self-determination and each year Easter Lilies are sold in their tens of thousands to…
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