We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible. The long usurpation of that right by corporations, banks merged with state, Church, and corporate power has not extinguished the right, nor can it ever be extinguished except by the destruction of the Irish people…“

And so states the new proclamation in Emer Martin’s wildly original ‪#‎secondrising‬. It’s a fresh, fierce and funny imagining of a second 1916 Rising amidst the 2016 commemorations in Dublin. With vivid and striking illustrations by Ashling McKeever, this is a truly revolutionary piece to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising.

http://thewildword.com/secondrising/