The General Post Office, or GPO, stands proudly on O'Connell Street as a symbol of Irish nationalism. During the 1916 Easter ...

During the historic events of the 1916 Easter Rising, a group of rebels stormed some of Dublin's most prominent buildings in the quest for Irish freedom from the British colonial empire.

Most people know the song Burl Ives sang in the 1950s, titled, “The Foggy, Foggy Dew,” but it was a rallying cry for the Irish for the Easter Rebellion in 1916, Cordle said. “That rebellion ...