The poetry of Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats which focused on the rebellion is featured and Dumbrill will discuss the internal motivations and intent of the rebels whose course was less successful yet in some ways parallel to the American battle for independence. The concept and wellsprings of personal, artistic, and political aspiration addressed through meeting poets Padraig Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, Joseph Mary Plunkett, revolutionary Maude Gonne, and other legendary, yet historical Irish figures.