“A Terrible Beauty Is Born”
Music (before the show begins)
Song: “Four Green Fields”
Welcome (Josh Tuohy)
Welcome (Maura Naughton)
Song: “The Minstrel-Boy/Let Erin Remember”
Poem: Easter 1916, by William Butler Yeats
Narrator (Maud Gonne): Introduction
James Connolly
Constance Markiewicz
Song: “The Rising of the Moon”
Seán MacDiarmada
Thomas MacDonagh
Poem: At the End, by Thomas MacDonagh
Music
Thomas Clarke
Éamon Ceannt
Joseph Plunkett
Poem: I See His Blood Upon the Rose, by Joseph Plunkett
Music
Pádraig Pearse
Song: “A Soldier’s Song”
Narrator: uprising events, part 1
Pearse: Proclamation of the Irish Republic
Song: “The Foggy Dew”
Narrator: uprising events, part 2
Poem: 1916, by Eric Rosenbloom
Music
Narrator: uprising events, part 3
Narrator: Pádraig Pearse
Pearse: last words (each signatory bows his head after reciting last words)
Narrator: Thomas Clarke
Clarke: last words
Narrator: Thomas MacDonagh
MacDonagh: last words
Narrator: Joseph Plunkett
Plunkett: last words
Narrator: Ned Daly
Narrator: Willie Pearse
Narrator: Michael O’Hanrahan
Narrator: John MacBride
Narrator: Éamonn Ceannt
Ceannt: last words
Narrator: Michael Mallin
Narrator: Con Colbert
Narrator: Seán Heuston.
Narrator: Seán MacDiarmada
MacDiarmada: last words
Narrator: James Connolly
Connolly: last words
Narrator: brief setup for …
Mrs. Margaret Pearse: Pádraig Pearse’s letter
Narrator: Conclusion
Song: “Óró ’s é do bheatha ’bhaile”
Thanks (Josh & Maura)
Song: “A Nation Once Again”