Easter Monday Republic of Ireland it is a day of remembrance for the men and women who died in the Easter Rising which began on Easter Monday 1916. Until 1966, there was a parade of veterans, past the headquarters of the Irish Republican Army at the General Post Office (GPO) on O'Connell Street, and a reading of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. "Śmigus-dyngus" (or "Lany Poniedziałek", the Polish for "Wet Monday") is the name for Easter Monday in Poland and the diaspora. In the Czech Republic it is called "velikonoční pondělí". In Slovakia "veľkonočný pondelok", also called "Šibačka/Polievačka" or "Oblievačka". In
Easter, 1916 of Irish history: <poem> "I write it out in a verse— MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born." </poem> The extent to which Yeats was willing to eulogize the members of the Easter Rising can be seen in his usage of "green" (78) to commemorate said members above, even though he generally abhors the use of the colour green as a political symbol (Yeats's abhorrence was such that he forbade green as the color of the binding of his books). In