On Easter Sunday 2021 I was given the honour of addressing the Irish National Association’s annual gathering at the 1798 monument in Waverley Cemetery. For more than 90 years members, supporters, and friends of the INA have assembled at the monument to commemorate the men and women of 1916. This year marks the 105th anniversary of the Easter Rising, but it is also marks the centenary of the partition of Ireland, that unwanted outcome of the revolution begun in 1916. In my address I reflect on the two events and what will be needed if the wish of the men and women of 1916 for a free, self-governing and united Ireland is to be achieved. An abridged version of the address appears on John Menadue’s Pearls and Irritations.