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…
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…
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…
The seven signatories of the Irish Proclamation Maurice Joy wrote in her account of Easter Monday 1916 that Dublin that morning “seemed as peaceful as any…
Two and a half years after dying amidst the worst thunder storm England had experienced in years, his rotting body was unceremoniously pulled from its resting…