Easter, is a poem by W. The uprising was unsuccessful and most of the Irish republican leaders involved were executed for treason. The poem was written between May and September , but first published in in the collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer.
Even though a committed nationalist, Yeats usually rejected violence as a means to secure Irish independence, and as a result had strained relations with some of the figures who eventually led the uprising.
The deaths of these revolutionary figures at the hands of the British, however, was as much a shock to Yeats as it was to ordinary Irish people at the time, who did not expect the events to take such a bad turn so soon. The killings led to a reinvigoration of the Irish Republican movement rather than its dissipation. Because it came at a terrible price, freedom was and remains a precious and beautiful thing worth understanding, worth remembering, worth preserving.
This idea of beauty emerging out of ugliness, of something positive reborn from something horrific, of a quiet and ceaseless survival regardless of what occurs, sums up somewhat both these days of lockdown in much of Switzerland that is still ongoing, and a visit a few years ago to an oasis where one should not be in the heart of the great metropolis of London.
As of 29 April , more than 3. More than , people have recovered. The man had previously visited Milan. Multiple isolated cases not related to the Italy clusters were also subsequently confirmed.
