Easter, 1916 – a terrible beauty was born. It had a dark and little seen twin; a terrible ignorance of the people of the North. South…
The rebels of 1916 came from all ranks of society, but a majority were lower-middle-class. In a time of high unemployment, the vast majority of the…
How can unionists condemn a rebellion when they threatened rebellion? During a recent discussion on BBC Spotlight on the Easter Rising, Jim Allister of the TUV…
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…
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…
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…