Much of this destruction followed from rebels’ use of civic buildings as defensive positions, as well as the efforts of ...

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 ...

A plaque has been unveiled in Dublin to honor the first child killed during the 1916 Easter Rising. Sean Francis Foster was hit in the head by a bullet as his mother attempted to push his pram to ...

Commemorations have taken place in Dublin on the 110th anniversary of the Easter Rising. The 1916 rebellion was an attempt to overthrow British rule in Ireland and has been credited by many historians ...

In the months before the Easter Rising, St. Patrick’s Day marches offered a glimpse of Ireland’s rising nationalist energy. Irish Volunteers march in Cork City, Ireland on Saint Patrick’s Day, 1916.

On November 26, 1923, a woman named Anne McCormack applied for a military dependent’s pension on the grounds of her husband, James McCormack’s death. He had been a soldier in the Irish citizen army, ...