During Easter week of 1916, an armed rebellion led by the Irish Republican Brotherhood took place in Dublin, with smaller insurrections scattered throughout the rest of Ireland. This rebellion stemmed ...

Liam Neeson, Hollywood star and famous son of Ballymena in Co Antrim, and I were members of the same drama group, The Slemish Players, at different times. He went on to achieve more in that field than ...

Ireland’s forthcoming centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising – a pivotal event in modern Irish history – is a cause for commemoration, and also raises some compelling questions. Humanities / History - ...

The miniseries is a dramatisation of the events surrounding the 1916 Easter Rising.

Sentenced to transportation after the 1848 rising he escaped Van Diemen's Land rebuilt his life in New York led Irish troops in the American Civil War and went on to serve as Montana's territorial ...

Although Christopher Columbus’s body traveled almost as much dead as it did alive, we know that he was originally buried in the Franciscan convent of San Francisco in Valladolid. But on the plaque ...

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