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Westland Row

It's Monday morning on the 18th June 1917.

On Westland Row in the city of Dublin, Ireland, crowds are gathering. Many are on board the Dublin tramways; others spectate in the street.

They have been celebrating all night, but now the moment is almost upon them.

It's been just over a year since the Easter Rising and now, finally, the last of the republican prisoners jailed in England are arriving home to a passionate reception.