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 the Irish state ...

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 ...

Once the Easter Rising began around midday on Easter Monday, normal everyday life in the city came to a halt. Events planned across the city were cancelled because of the military situation and ...

Dublin: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar began his visit to Ireland from the iconic General Post Office Museum which ...

AT Easter 1916, a whole century ago, a band of Irish men and women, amid the unceasing slaughter of the world war, sought to achieve by force full independence for Britain’s oldest colony. Estimates ...

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 ...

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.

Colm Tóibín talks about his history of the Easter 1916 rebellion, delivered as one of the LRB’s Winter Lectures in 2016. He discusses the way writing and history collided through the figures 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 ...