DUBLIN, Ireland — Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. While World War I raged through mainland Europe, Dublin was center stage for events that would rock the British Empire and set Ireland on a ...

The Easter Rising, the 1916 armed insurrection that hindsight tells us was the opening act in the successful Irish fight for independence from Great Britain, was by almost any measure a catastrophe.

Unthinkable: To create a shared future on this island, and internationally, we must move beyond uncritically celebrating the ...

P erhaps the most controversial aspect of the Easter Rising of April 24, 1916, was its legacy. The War of Independence and the Civil War were profoundly shaped by the legacy of 1916. Violence ...

Turtle Bunbury is an award-wining author and historian based in Ireland, whose book “Easter Dawn, the 1916 Rising charts the fight for Irish independence from the landing of guns for the Irish ...

Shortly after noon on Easter Monday 1916, Pádraig Pearse accompanied by an armed guard, stood on the steps of the GPO and read a proclamation declaring the establishment of an Irish republic, ...

Everything about the Easter Rising of 1916 is controversial, including when to celebrate its centennial. By longstanding tradition, the anniversary of the doomed rebellion that ultimately led to ...

The Easter Rising began on April 24, 1916 when the Irish Volunteers, armed with rifles, seized control of Dublin’s General Post Office, as well as several other buildings in Dublin, ...

Thank heavens! It appears all is in place for a politically correct and anodyne celebration of Easter 1916.. It seems we must not forget anyone who had hand, act or part in the unfortunately messy ...

Produced by Louise Donlon, Co-Director and Jim O’Brien, script-writer and narrator, the community show was made on mobile phones in spite of Covid-19 lockdowns. Recently discovered letters show ...

This is a year of centenaries and the primary focus has been on two events, the Irish republican rebellion in Dublin at Easter 1916 and the Battle of the Somme, which started on July 1, 1916.