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April is National Poetry Month! CCPL is pleased to welcome Doug Dumbrill, J.D., Gillette attorney and Gillette College adjunct professor, to present a review of the Irish Easter Rebellion of 1916 that centers around several of the rebels who left a unique record of their struggles in poetry.
The poetry of Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats which focused on the rebellion is featured and Dumbrill will discuss the internal motivations and intent of the rebels whose course was less successful yet in some ways parallel to the American battle for independence. The concept and wellsprings of personal, artistic, and political aspiration addressed through meeting poets Padraig Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, Joseph Mary Plunkett, revolutionary Maude Gonne, and other legendary, yet historical Irish figures.