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 ...

film profile] (2006), having won a Jussi, Finland’s national film prize – he is currently directing Rebellion, a historical TV series about Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rebellion, which will be aired by RTÉ ...

In honor of the centenary of the Irish Uprising on Easter Monday, 1916, The Irish Studies Program of The University of Montana, The Friends of Irish Studies, the Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives, ...

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.

MANCHESTER — Members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians Rev. William J. Shanahan Division 1 marked the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rebellion in Ireland with a series of public events April 24 ...

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 ...