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. These illustrations were by Brian O’Higgins, also known as Brian na Banban, who was an Irish writer, poet, soldier and politician. He was a founding member of the Irish Volunteers […]
Joseph Mary Plunkett (Irish: Sesamh Máire Pluincéid) was an Irish nationalist, republican, poet, journalist, revolutionary and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising
Are there, in fact, legions of millennials in Ireland just waiting to flock back through the doors of churches at unreasonably early hours on a Sunday morning to have their communion and listen to sermons, just as soon as Pope Francis announces that he will permit the blessing of same sex marriages?
Everybody knows the policy is a disaster; Everybody is afraid to say it.
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. The estate was massive and included lands in Leitrim, Donegal, Kildare and Galway. Lord Leitrim was obsessed with improving land productivity. He evicted families or sometimes paid them to […]
Was Smith right to be angry? Sure, he was.
In 1974 local farmers digging a well near the Chinese city of Xian came across one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made
In Dublin this year
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.
The infamous and notorious Black and Tans will not be forgotten in Irish history.
It’s the kind of thing that, if it were being proposed for, say, Boris Johnson, would have the Irish media in apoplectic form.
St Patrick is now one of the world’s best known Catholic figures