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 ...

Dublin Ireland. April 24th 1916. The seeds of a rebellion have been planted and revolution is on the horizon. It starts early Easter Monday, as Dublin Castle comes under siege. Triggering one of the ...

The Easter Rising, the rebellion which took place over the course of five days in Dublin in 1916 and forever changed the course of Irish history, led to the execution of its leaders. 1916 Easter ...

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 ...

Yeats’ ‘Easter 1916’ gave us the unforgettable refrain ‘A terrible beauty is born’ but it also portrayed leaders like Pearse and MacDonagh as cultured men of letters as well as ...

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 ...

Elizabeth “Lily” Kempson fled to the US after fighting in the 1916 Easter Rising. She died on January 21, 1996, at 99 years of age in Washington state. Elizabeth Ann “Lily” Kempson ...

The Irish men and women who bravely fought in the 1916 Easter Rising are commemorated in a garden of remembrance with a monument of the Irish proclamation in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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 ...