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The true inheritors today of the ideals of the men and women of 1916 to 1922 are those who are explicitly and visibly committed to leaving the physical force tradition behind... Surely this state funeral can be an occasion for examination of conscience about the ideals of the men who died, and about
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The campaign to rebury the men dragged on for 80 years from their deaths. Following an intense period of negotiations, the Irish government relented. Plans to exhume the bodies of the 10 men were announced on 1 November 2000, the 80th anniversary of the execution of Kevin Barry. On 14 October 2001,
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These 10 young men were executed during the War of Independence. The country was under tremendous pressure at the time. There was a united effort. Meanwhile, elected by the people, Dáil Éireann was developing, in spite of a war going on. Democracy was being put to work. Independent civic
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and occurred at a delicate moment in the Northern Irish peace negotiations. The progress of the cortège through the centre of Dublin was witnessed by crowds estimated as being in the tens of thousands who broke into spontaneous applause as the coffins passed. On
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institutions, including the Dáil courts, were beginning to function. Before their deaths, the ten had seen the light of freedom. They understood that Ireland would be free and independent.
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in Northern Ireland, insisted that there was a clear distinction between the conflict of 1916–22 and the paramilitary-led violence of the previous 30 years:
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the Forgotten Ten were afforded full state honours, with a private service at Mountjoy Prison for the families of the dead, a
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Based upon military law at the time, they were buried within the prison precincts, their graves unmarked in the
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our responsibility for translating those ideals into today's realities.
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Plaque placed by the Irish Government on the graves of the Volunteers
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The grave of nine of the Forgotten Ten in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin
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Irish Republicans killed during the Irish War of Independence
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14 Oct 2001 Telegraph.co.uk : Accessed 1 November 2008
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echoed these sentiments and also paid tribute to the Ten:
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Irish
Irish Republican Army
Mountjoy Prison
Dublin
courts martial
Irish War of Independence
unconsecrated ground
Kevin Barry
Thomas Whelan
Patrick Moran
Patrick Doyle
Bernard Ryan
Thomas Bryan
Frank Flood
Thomas Traynor
Edmond Foley
Patrick Maher
John Ellis
Irish War of Independence
Irish Free State
National Graves Association
Celtic cross
Glasnevin Cemetery

requiem mass
St Mary's Pro-Cathedral
Glasnevin Cemetery
The Guardian
Fianna Fáil

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