The Easter Rising of 1916 is everywhere at the moment. With a new comic dedicated to the Rising being released this week and a new big name movie being announced, the pop culture arena is embracing our great Irish history. Gerry Hunt, a 73 year old Phibsboro man, has written a colourful comic story about the Irish rebels fight against the British army an Easter 1916. Blood Upon The Rose follows the main action from the story of the Rising, centring on characters like De Valera and Joseph Plunkett. “I would have loved to do more on the romance between Joseph Plunkett, who was dying with TB, and Grace Clifford, who he married before he was executed,” he told the Evening Herald. Sadly, it’s just 46 pages long. Perhaps he’ll expand on it in the future. Gerry will be signing copies of Blood Upon the Rose: Easter 1916 in Chapters … There’s more →