In bright springtime sunshine, the President laid a wreath in tribute to those who died, while a Catholic Mass was followed ...

The 102nd commemoration ceremony honoring the Irish nationalists who lost their lives in the Easter Rising in 1916 took place ...

Caption: 13th May 1916: The bombed buildings at the corner of Sackville street and Eden Quay on the banks of the Liffey in Dublin. The buildings were shelled by the British admiralty gunboat, the ...

As the GPO burned on April 28, 1916, Michael Joseph O’Rahilly led a desperate charge on Moore Street in a bid to help the ...

President Catherine Connolly has laid a wreath at the graves of the executed 1916 Rising leaders as part of the annual ...

Editor's Note: The 1916 Easter Rising took place over five days in Dublin and forever changed the course of Irish history. Writer and historian Dermot McEvoy produced 16 profiles of the Irish Rebel ...

IRELAND AND the world is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the great 1916 Rising. On the morning of Easter Monday 1916, April 24, some 1,300 members of the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army ...

In April 1916, a small group of republicans began a week-long rebellion in Dublin, Ireland, seeking freedom from Britain. The republicans thought—with Britain focused on World War I—that the uprising ...

DUBLIN -- Thousands of soldiers marched solemnly through the crowded streets of Dublin on Sunday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising against Britain, a fateful rebellion that ...

“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 ...

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 ...