Who knifed Queen Victoria’s portrait in Dublin in 1916?
Fragment of royal portrait – slashed during rebels’ occupation of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – turns up for auction
The forgotten role of women insurgents in the 1916 Rising
The debate surrounding the 90th anniversary of 1916 tends to forget about one important group of participants - women
Attitude of State to nationhood only adds to great divide
The people of Ireland do not constitute an Irish nation today, any more than they did in 1916, writes Dennis Kennedy
Dublin divided
HISTORY: DERMOT BOLGER reviews A City in Wartime: Dublin 1914-18 Pádraig Yeates Gill & Macmillan, 304pp. €24.99
Easter 1916, remembered by the people who were there
HISTORY: MARY E DALY reviews Rebels: Voices from the Easter Rising By Fearghal McGarry Penguin Ireland, 366pp. £20
July 25th, 1916
FROM THE ARCHIVES: With the promise of a loan from the British Government, Dublin city council began discussing the rebuilding…
How Easter Rising showed Dublin in its true colours
In a sense, Dublin never quite seceded from the British empire, but seems to gaze forlornly across the Irish Sea, writes JOHN…
March 25th, 1916
FROM THE ARCHIVES: In March 1916 – coincidentally, a month before the Easter Rising – The Irish Times published “a flight of…
March 21st, 1917
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Less than a year after the Easter Rising the change of heart about the rebellion amongst members of the Irish…
The Rising and the falling
FICTION: CARLO GÉBLER reviews After the Lockout By Darran McCann Fourth Estate, 241pp. £12.99
An Irishman's Diary
Sixteen British soldiers were in the GPO during the Easter Rising, writes Wesley Boyd
The Rising was phase in ongoing fight for freedom
My grandfather's time in the GPO was part of a lifelong struggle, writes Eoin Ryan.
Rising and early independence brought prosperity
Home Rule would have made us dependent; we got out from under British rule just in time, writes Garret FitzGerald.
Monument to mark John Redmond speech unveiled
FORMER TAOISEACH John Bruton yesterday unveiled a monument erected at Woodenbridge, Co Wicklow, to mark the speech which John…
Study to assess if O'Connell St could be on 1916 tourist trail
MINISTER FOR Tourism Leo Varadkar says he has asked Fáilte Ireland to carry out a study to assess whether the upper end of Dublin…
Home truths about Home Rule
Sir, – While I wholeheartedly agree with Eoghan McSwiney’s (April 14th) analysis of John Redmond, I feel he is rather unfair…
Impact of 1912 Home Rule Bill recalled
THE DECISIVE impact of the third Home Rule Bill on the history of Ireland over the past century was the theme of the first official…
Sacrifice of Irish men who fought in first World War recalled
THE FIRST World War represents the worst Irish death toll from a single event since the Famine, making it imperative that its…
Rising to the challenge
With such a long tradition of complex and contradictory responses to the 1916 Easter Rising, there’s no reason to expect the …
September 4th, 1917
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Thomas Ashe, one of the leaders of the Easter Rising, died while being force-fed on hunger strike in September…
May 14th, 1916: Easter Rising compared to 1798 rebellion
FROM THE ARCHIVES: IN THE weeks after the Easter Rising, much newsprint was devoted to trying to find out what had happened …
Lucid grassroots account of 1916 Rising explores participants' statements
BOOK OF THE DAY: The Rising: Easter 1916 By Fearghal McGarry Oxford University Press, 365pp, £18.99
The revolution's unsung hero
MICHAEL KENNEDY reviews My Father, The Genral by Ristéard Mulcahy, Liberties Oress, 283pp €17.99
An Irishman's Diary
THE NAME “Blackadder” is now indelibly linked to the BBC comedy series in which Rowan Atkinson’s cynical anti-hero sent up several…
APRIL 24th, 1916: 'Our foolish young men play at soldiers'
READERS OF The Irish Times on Easter Monday in 1916, April 24th that year, would have had no inkling of the historical change…
The GPO and the Rising revisited
HISTORY: Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO By Clair Wills Profile Books 299pp £14.99
Extract from Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO
THE RISING is a rare treat in the history of political insurrection before the age of television, an event that was explored …
Little did they know
British Spies and Irish Rebels: British Intelligence and Ireland, 1916-45 By Paul McMahon Boydell Brewer, 516pp
Remembering the Rising
In 1966, the golden jubilee of the Easter Rising, Telefís Éireann broadcast a series of 21 lectures on the history of Ireland…
Rising to the challenge
History Last year's commemoration of events in 1916 has inspired a thought-provoking essay collection
Rebellion revisited
Irish History: A return to the 'lived reality' of the events of Easter week in words and pictures
Saga of the diaries has clouded legacy of Casement
Author Roger Sawyer looks back at the life of Roger Casement, whose campaign to secure Irish freedom ended a brilliant career…
A passionate pageant
1916: An examination of the Easter Rising as a cultural event is provocative and timely.
Couple committed to a catharsis
The resurgence of interest in 1916 may seem like a new phenomenon, but, looking back, the signs were there 10 years ago when …
Let's delay next resurrection of insurrection
Inside Politics: The pomp and ceremony surrounding the official commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the 1916 Rising has…
Riding the wave of the Rising
In his stage treatment of the 1916 Rising, the usually controversial writer Donal O'Kelly is for once seeking to reach the middle…
1916 - What does it mean to you?
Shane Hegarty hears views from a selection of public figures on the legacy of the 1916 Rising.
Revising the Rising
Connect: Last Sunday, the Observer newspaper published an article by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Commemorating the 1916 Rising
The Defence Forces will march past the GPO on O'Connell Street in Dublin tomorrow in the first military parade commemorating …
Rising was a Catholic revolt against Redmondite elite
The Rising produced an economic and social philosophy which condemned Ireland to material failure until the 1960s, writes Paul…
Women were among the chief sufferers in the ensuing conflict
The leaders could not have anticipated the treatment of their widows in later years at the hands of their countrymen, writes …
Reconciliation - the unfinished business of the Easter Rising
For modern Ireland to turn its back on Easter 1916 - or to relinquish it to the political necrophiliacs of provisionalism - would…
Aspirations of rebels were never fulfilled
Last month I found myself standing in the prison cell where Patrick Pearse awaited his execution at Kilmainham Gaol in May 1916…
Proclamation shook the world in 1916 and still challenges us now
Speech by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern at the opening of the commemorative exhibition on the Easter 1916 Rising at the National Museum…
Time to revise the revisionists
Other nations, or so it seems from a distance, are grounded in certainties which grow subtly stronger all the while, whereas …
Reading 1916 politics via official acts of memory
WorldView: Who won in 1916? This is hard to answer, but it is a vital aspect of the politics of commemoration
Taking a look through the smoke of 1916
Irish History: Historians will be ploughing through the files of the Irish Bureau of Military History (BMH) for many years to…
An Irishman's Diary
One of the most important figures in Irish history, and certainly in the history of independent Ireland, retired from active …
Distorting the true image of Pearse
`O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!" The distorted image of Patrick Pearse that Kevin Myers has allowed to ferment in his…
An Irishman's Diary
The Pearse brothers were doers, declared my chum Damien Kiberd at the recent opening of their restored family home
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