On Easter Monday 1916, a small group of Irish rebels took on the mighty British Empire. Narrated by actor Liam Neeson, the series 1916 THE IRISH REBELLION tells the dramatic story of the events that ...

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 ...

DUBLIN, April 16 (Reuters) - A letter written by one of the leaders of Ireland's ill-fated 1916 uprising against British rule the day before his execution is expected to fetch up to 100,000 euros ...

DUBLIN (Reuters Life!) - A letter written by a leader of Ireland's ill-fated 1916 uprising against British rule shortly before his execution will stay in Dublin after an anonymous benefactor stepped ...

Irish prisoners were marched along a Dublin quay under British guard during the bloody Irish insurrection that began on Easter Monday, 1916. (AP Photo) Standing on the front steps of Dublin’s general ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Clarke was the only U.S. citizen to be executed as a result of the 1916 Easter Rising - the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798. “Clarke spent a good deal of time ...

Many feared the Easter Rising centenary commemorations last year would be divisive and lead to rancor and discord. Instead, they became a grassroots success. The Government proposed, but the people ...