MacMAHON, Bryan. Seachtar Fear. Seacht Lá. Seven Men : Seven Days. Programme of 1916 – 1966 celebration of the Easter Rising.

In Croke Park, March 17 - March, 19. In Casement Park, Belfast, March, 27. Illustrated. Cover design by M.A. O’Connor. Dublin: 1966. Quarto. pp. 12. Coloured pictorial stapled wrappers. A rare survival. €225
A collection of information and memorabilia commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. Golden Jubilee of the Easter Rising 1916-1966. Foreword by Eamon de Valera. Script by Bryan MacMahon. With contributions by Mairéad M. Ní Phiarais, Nora Connolly-O’Brien, and from the writings of Pearse, Plunkett and MacDonagh

On Easter Sunday 10th April 1966, the Official Ceremony to mark the Golden Jubilee of the 1916 Easter Rising began with a military parade attended by 600 veterans of the Rising on O’Connell Street Dublin with at least 200,000 spectators gathered in the city centre. President Eamon de Valera took the salute. Later that Sunday, the President laid a wreath at Kilmainham Gaol and opened the museum there.
The station also broadcast two pageants which were specifically written for the Golden Jubilee commemorations. Seachtar Fear, Seacht Lá was commissioned by the GAA and staged in Croke Park on St. Patrick’s Day and again on the following two days. It was also performed in Casement Park, Belfast during Easter Week. The cast of almost 400 included the Artane Boy’s Band and two other Pipe Bands.
The pageant was repeated in Casement Park on March, 27.

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