A compelling modern day interpretation of the proclamation is that it presaged the need to entrench equality in all aspects of society, including proper legislation north and south to guarantee rights and protection of LGBT citizens, ethnic minorities, women, the disabled, the old and vulnerable.
Remembering the 1916 Easter Rising means discussing the future - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk Well, I had always been under the misguided delusion that the Patrick Pearse and company seized the GPO and fought the British on Easter Monday to establish an Irish Republic free from British rule. Apparently it was Dublin's first gay pride parade. Go figure.
Source: belfasttelegraph.co.uk