DUBLIN, Ireland — Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. While World War I raged through mainland Europe, Dublin was center stage for events that would rock the British Empire and set Ireland on a course for ...

A commemorative garden in memory of the 40 children killed during the 1916 Easter Rising was unveiled in Dublin last week. The 1916 Children’s Commemorative Play Garden, at St Audeon’s Park in Dublin, ...

Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the Easter Rising of April 24, 1916, was its legacy. The War of Independence and the Civil War were profoundly shaped by the legacy of 1916. Violence against ...

A ceremony to mark the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising will take place outside the GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024, commencing at noon. The ceremony will be led by ...

The General Post Office in Dublin shown here after the 1916 Rising. 100 years after the Irish rebel forces collided with the British Army in the bloody Easter Rising, the country continues to ...

SCITUATE — The Easter Rising, which commenced on April 24, 1916 in Dublin, Ireland, was a blood sacrifice. Yet it was hoped the example of those who gave their lives for Irish Freedom would inspire ...

“Riots in Dublin; Twelve are Dead,” declared a front-page headline in The Hartford Times on Tuesday, April 25, 1916. The report, containing few specifics and filtered through London, was one of the ...

With the fastest-growing economy in Europe, and a young, well-educated population fit for its expanding tech industry, the Irish hope for a flourishing future as they observe the 100th centenary year ...

Anniversaries are as much about the now as the then. Consider the anniversaries for the Easter Rising, the armed insurrection launched in 1916 by Irish Republicans during Easter Week that year, April ...

Revisiting the defining moment in Ireland’s struggle for independence. This year marked the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland. In April 1916, several hundred Irish nationalists seized ...

Everything about the Easter Rising of 1916 is controversial, including when to celebrate its centennial. By longstanding tradition, the anniversary of the doomed rebellion that ultimately led to the ...