The General Post Office, or GPO, stands proudly on O'Connell Street as a symbol of Irish nationalism. During the 1916 Easter Rising, it served as the headquarters for the leaders of the rebellion, who ...

The Easter Rising took place in ... The executions of the rebel leadership and the arrest of over 3,000 people in the wake of the Rising also served to radicalise public opinion.

Here's a look at some of the best Irish tunes that remember the 1916 Easter Rising and those who took part: One of the most famous of all Irish ballads about the 1916 leader, James Connolly ...

For a start, newspapers were crucial to the curtailment of the Rising ... the leader of the Irish Volunteers, placed his notice cancelling manoeuvres for Easter Sunday after learning that they ...

His uncle Joseph Mary Plunkett, one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising and a signatory of the Proclamation of Independence, was famously executed for his role in the 1916 Rising in ...