Organised by a seven-man Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising began on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916 and lasted for six days.
The story of Roger Casement’s landing and capture at Banna Strand in Kerry as he attempted to bring arms ashore for the 1916 Rising, is commemorated in the famed ballad Banna Strand.
Start of ‘gigantic’ movement
Joseph Mary Plunkett (Irish: Sesamh Máire Pluincéid) was an Irish nationalist, republican, poet, journalist, revolutionary and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising
“Everything we do know about Scappaticci since he was exposed confirms that he was a state agent”
Joseph Plunket and Grace Gifford married just hours before he was executed in the Stone-breakers’ Yard on the morning of 4 May 1916.
When William Sydney Clements, the 3rd Earl of Leitrim inherited a vast estate from his father in 1854 he became a controlling landlord and bullying tyrant.
It was estimated that more than 400 people died at Doolough
In 1974 local farmers digging a well near the Chinese city of Xian came across one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made
An inspiration to millions of others in the totalitarian states
In March 2003, in a bog on the border of Meath and Offaly, in a place called Clonycavan, a body emerged from the peat beneath the shovel of a cutting machine.
He was born in Mayo the second of five children in an Irish speaking family.