The General Post Office, or GPO, stands proudly on O'Connell Street as a symbol of Irish nationalism. During the 1916 Easter Rising, it served as the headquarters for the leaders of the rebellion, who ...

(Part 2/2) On Easter Monday in 1916, Irish rebels read a proclamation of independence that sparked a week-long battle with the British army. Over the next six days, this new bloody frontier of the ...

as events prior to and following the Easter Rising of 1916, remained significant. For a start, newspapers were crucial to the curtailment of the Rising, to its deferment by a day and, ultimately ...

Yeats’ ‘Easter 1916’ gave us the unforgettable refrain ‘A terrible beauty is born’ but it also portrayed leaders like Pearse and MacDonagh as cultured men of letters as well as ...

Colm Tóibín tells the story of Easter 1916, following the main personalities involved, in particular Thomas Clarke and Patrick Pearse. Tóibín also discusses how interpretations of the rebellion by ...

The Easter Rising of 1916 against British rule in Ireland has both political and literary significance. It marked one of the foundational moments in European history that led to the liberation of ...

In 1916 the United Kingdom came under attack from ... historian Heather Jones reassesses the armed struggle that came to be known as The Easter Rising ...