1916 Portraits and Lives

The Royal Irish Academy's 1916 Portraits and lives exhibition is currently on view in the Embassy in Berlin. The biographies selected compose an inclusively  broad picture of the rising, representing the spectrum of personalities and perspectives that were involved in the event. They include not only the insurgents (and some other) killed during the rising but also some of the women who were involved as soldiers or in supporting capacities; three nationalist leaders who opposed the rising; some of the senior figures in the British administration in Ireland in 1916; members of the British army that suppressed the rising; and two historians who made considerable contributions to the scholarly debate on 1916.

The exhibition will be open to the public throughout the month of June,. Monday to Friday from 9.30 - 12.30 at the Embassy of Ireland, Jägerstr. 51, 10117 Berlin.