What began on an Easter morning in Dublin would ignite a revolution. The Easter Rising planted the roots of Irish ...

A ceremony to mark the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising will take place outside the GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024, commencing at noon. The ceremony will be led by ...

A plaque has been unveiled in Dublin to honor the first child killed during the 1916 Easter Rising. Sean Francis Foster was hit in the head by a bullet as his mother attempted to push his pram to ...

Commemorations have taken place in Dublin on the 110th anniversary of the Easter Rising. The 1916 rebellion was an attempt to overthrow British rule in Ireland and has been credited by many historians ...

In the months before the Easter Rising, St. Patrick’s Day marches offered a glimpse of Ireland’s rising nationalist energy. Irish Volunteers march in Cork City, Ireland on Saint Patrick’s Day, 1916.

Waterford Whispers is an Irish satirical news website which pokes fun at whoever and whatever happens to be in the headlines. Monday was, officially speaking, the 100th anniversary of the Easter ...

It was on this day in 1868 that James Connolly, one of the minds behind the Irish Easter Rising, was born in Edinburgh.

Brendan O’Carroll, Michael Portillo, Heather Jones, Diarmaid Ferriter and Bob Geldof to present a range of programmes. In a new film for BBC Two Brendan O’Carroll (Mrs Brown’s Boys) takes viewers on ...