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'A terrible beauty': US festival reflects on Ireland's Easter Rising 100 years later by David Smith In Washington

The 1916 Irish rebellion against British rule that in six days left 485 people dead is the cue for a festival of Irish arts and culture in WashingtonWhile on the election campaign trail for wife Hillary, former president Bill Clinton keeps going back to poetry to explain the discontent gnawing at Americans who have not had a pay rise in years. "Too long a sacrifice, can make a stone of the heart," he says.The lines c…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PM on May 16, 2016

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