(Part 2/2) On Easter Monday in 1916, Irish rebels read a proclamation of independence that sparked a week-long battle with the British army. Over the next six days, this new bloody frontier of the ...

a professor emeritus of contemporary Irish history at Trinity College Dublin. “That’s how it is when I’m in a library or archive. If you want to get a ground-level view of history, this is the kind of ...

A tape recording from 1984 revealed an elderly republican’s ambition to publish his life story - four decades on, it has ...

This was swiftly followed by retaliatory measures from Dublin ... of its independence – intelligence cooperation and the service of Irish men and women in the Allied war effort illustrated ...

Collectors also used the event to bring to auction letters, documents, military medals and other archival material. Whyte’s annual Eclectic Collector auction, which ends on Sunday, between 2pm and 6pm ...

A history of the build-up to the 1916 Easter Rising rebellion in Ireland. (Part 1/2) With Britain engaged in the First World War in Europe, Irish rebels sensed an opportunity. Irish revolutions had ...