General John Maxwell On Monday May 1 1916 Dublin is at peace, but it is a ruin of life and property. Grown men stand in…
Countess Markievicz By Sunday the rebels of the GPO and Four Courts are in British hands. The others in the five garrisons on the south side…
Edward ‘Ned’ Daly The weather on Saturday, like the events of that week, remain remarkably unseasonal. “It is astonishing that, thus early in the Spring, the weather…
By ten o’clock on Friday night the GPO is a burning shell At break of day on Friday the centre of Dublin is unrecognisable. Sackville…
The rebellion is in its fourth day and the British, with endless reserves of men and shot and shell, quickly take the balance of combat. Troops…
Liberty Hall By Wednesday the skies in Dublin are hot and sunny, no longer the dark and sultry conditions of the first days. Like the weather,…
Nora Connolly, writer and activist, is the daughter of James Connolly. On Easter Sunday a century ago, the republican movement (the IRB and Irish Volunteers) was…
How can there be a carnival on a battlefield? That’s what Dublin was for the ordinary people of the city during the Easter week of 1916.…
The Arbour Hill memorial mass and oration is a signal event in the Fianna Fáil calendar, marking the 1916 Rising. Arbour Hill is a prison and…