This season marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most important events in history: the Easter Uprising of 1916. The “Rising” was an attack of Irish rebels who wanted freedom from Britain. The ...

This Easter was more than a yearly Christian holiday. Easter Monday also marked the 90-year anniversary of the Easter Rising, when a small group of people in Ireland fought and died for freedom. Many ...

Easter Sunday marks the 95th anniversary of one of the bloodiest chapters in Irish history. On April 24, 1916, an estimated 1,600 Irish volunteer soldiers converged upon several public buildings in ...

DUBLIN — Ireland on Sunday staged its largest ever military parade as it marked the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising, a botched but historically significant rebellion against British rule.

On Easter Monday 1916, thousands of Irish militants in Dublin launched bloody street battles in an unsuccessful attempt to overturn British rule. Ninety years later and 3,500 miles away, about two ...

LONDON — One hundred years ago, a ragtag band of Irish nationalists battled the British army in central Dublin for six days in a failed attempt to win independence from the United Kingdom. The ...

More than 2,500 Irish military personnel, some saluting atop tanks and others marching with fixed bayonets, paraded Sunday past the bullet-scarred spot where rebels launched a fateful Easter 1916 ...

Listen quietly to the Irish A presentation by John Schifsky about the life and poetry of W.B. Yeats and the 100th anniversary of the Easter Uprising in Ireland will be held at 6:30 p.m. today at the ...