This Easter was more than a yearly Christian holiday. Easter Monday also marked the 90-year anniversary of the Easter Rising, when a small group of people in Ireland fought and died for freedom. Many ...

film profile] (2006), having won a Jussi, Finland’s national film prize – he is currently directing Rebellion, a historical TV series about Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rebellion, which will be aired by RTÉ ...

During Easter week of 1916, an armed rebellion led by the Irish Republican Brotherhood took place in Dublin, with smaller insurrections scattered throughout the rest of Ireland. This rebellion stemmed ...

NEW HAVEN The 88th anniversary commemorating the 1916 Easter Rebellion in Dublin, Ireland, will be held on the Green Sunday. A Mass will be said at 9 a.m., and a flag-raising ceremony will follow. A ...

What was the real after effect of the 1916 Easter Rising on Ireland? This collection of short films looks at what the rebellion left in its wake. The 1916 Easter Rising is approaching its 103rd ...

Irish President Michael D Higgins, right, prepares to lay a wreath Sunday at the General Post Office on O'Connell Street, Dublin, Ireland. Hundreds of thousands of people took part in the 100th ...

On Easter Monday 1916, thousands of Irish militants in Dublin launched bloody street battles in an unsuccessful attempt to overturn British rule. Ninety years later and 3,500 miles away, about two ...

Historic newsreel footage shows the aftermath of the Dublin 1916 Easter Rising as "British troops march through the streets of Dublin." The Irish Film Institute has released newsreel footage of Dublin ...

MANCHESTER — Members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians Rev. William J. Shanahan Division 1 marked the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rebellion in Ireland with a series of public events April 24 ...

More than 2,500 Irish military personnel, some saluting atop tanks and others marching with fixed bayonets, paraded Sunday past the bullet-scarred spot where rebels launched a fateful Easter 1916 ...

Dublin, 22 July 1916 - General Sir John Maxwell has paid tribute to the conduct of the troops who served in Dublin during the recent rebellion. In a dispatch to London he particularly commended the ...