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 ...

Ireland has thousands of folk songs and some of which are known all over the world.They often sing about history, Irish heroes and about the fight for independence. Ciaran is a comedian based ...

IrishCentral contributor Joseph Connell examines the life of a hero of Irish Republicanism, Máire Comerford, the fearless ...

Known as the ‘Fighting 69th’ or ... Despite persistent efforts by the American Commission on Irish Independence to get the president to realise how his numerous calls for ‘self-determination ...

During the War of Independence, the Irish Republican Army (IRA ... At the outset of fighting in Dublin during late June 1922, the National Army essentially decapitated the IRA by capturing ...

Occupied from 1796 to the 1920s, the prison housed many famous figures in the fight for Irish independence, including Thomas Francis Meagher and James Connolly, and was also the site for more ...

Americans once again donned their green beads and shamrocks for St. Patrick’s Day, celebrating the largest Irish diaspora in ... America's Declaration of Independence. Major cities across ...