Four unlikely leaders celebrated on Easter Rising banners

College Green display commemorates 1916 by honouring men who did not take part

The 1916 banners at College Green Bank of Ireland, with images of Henry Grattan, Daniel O’Connell, Charles Stewart Parnell, and John Redmond, who described the Rising as ’wicked and insane’

The 1916 banners at College Green Bank of Ireland, with images of Henry Grattan, Daniel O’Connell, Charles Stewart Parnell, and John Redmond, who described the Rising as ’wicked and insane’

Dubliners and visitors alike will be a little confused by the massive banners that Dublin City Council has affixed to the front of the Bank of Ireland on College Green for the duration of the Easter Rising commemoration period.

Green-tinged images of Henry Grattan, Daniel O’Connell, Charles Stewart Parnell and John Redmond hang from the building’s impressive portico, along with the words “1916- 2016 Centenary Programme”.

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