ON EASTER Sunday and Monday, commemorative ceremonies took place in Glasgow cemeteries to honour Glasgow-based Irish Republicans who rendered service as members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Briogaid na h-Albain, Óglaigh na hÉireann, Cumann na mBan, Na Fianna Éireann and Sinn Féin.

IN 1816, landscape painter John Knox, travelled the 10 miles or so from Glasgow, to paint the Clyde from Faifley and Duntocher—two small settlements which were part of the parish of Old Kilpatrick. It was an early autumn scene, a rolling wooded hillside with a textile mill in the distance. It was pleasant, green and largely unoccupied. By the mid 1840s it was an entirely different picture.

DURING Easter weekend a number of commemorative ceremonies took place in several cemeteries in Glasgow and the west of Scotland, to honour Irish men and women who kept the national spirit alive among the exiles.