The parallel lives of two Irishmen who died in 1916 expose the tragic complexity of the British-Irish relationshipWB Yeats was right. Ireland was “changed utterly” by the seismic Easter events of 1916,which paved the way for Irish independence. The success of the Northern Ireland peace process means that a century on, Ireland and Britain are in a position to view their overlapping pasts through a wide-angle lens, and noticing complexities made visible by the passage of time.
The complexities of that era are well illustrated by the parallel lives of two Irishmen named Thomas who both met violent deaths during that fateful year.
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Source: theguardian.com