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

The General Post Office (GPO) on Dublin's Sackville Street (O'Connell Street) is the most famous location associated with the Easter Rising. Originally opened in 1818, the GPO was seized by ...

The Easter Rising took place in Dublin ... Once they had left the GPO the Rising was effectively over. Pearse surrendered on Saturday afternoon to avoid any further loss of civilian life.

During the historic events of the 1916 Easter Rising, a group of rebels stormed ... It was sung in the GPO. The Irish version came out in 1926.

AT Easter 1916, a whole century ago ... shotguns and often antiquated rifles, occupied Dublin’s General Post Office and a number of other points around central Dublin. Outside the Post Office Patrick ...

American poet WH Auden's words, "marble well-governed cities" full of "vines and olive trees." But Israel and its allies have turned it into "an artificial wilderness" ...

In 2016, on the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising, Dermot McEvoy looked back ... stage at the Abbey Theatre and went to fight in the GPO. He was active during Easter Week in O’Connell and ...

Although the 1916 Easter Rising made the Irish tricolour famous ... Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army flew the Irish ...

Winifred Carney was stationed in the GPO throughout Easter Week and witnessed first ... by Pearse in front of the G.P.O." Throughout the Rising she typed James Connolly's orders and observed ...