Contested legacy: echoes of the Easter Rising

As a child, Sean O’Hagan thought the 1916 Easter Rising was ancient history. Then came the Troubles. As the centenary looms, he reflects on how this deeply symbolic moment has reverberated through Irish lives – including his ownWhen I was a boy growing up in Northern Ireland, I attended a Roman Catholic school run by Christian Brothers. I was taught the Irish language, but not Irish history. Looking back, that seems to sum up the paradoxical sense of belonging and yet not belonging t