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Author Dermot McEvoy outlines the key facts, most important historical figures, and events surrounding the 1916 Easter Uprising in Ireland.

Dublin native Michael Mallin prophetically said during the 1916 Easter Rising, "We will all be dead in a short time.”

Comments The poem that defined the era of the Easter Rising is "Easter, 1916" by William Butler Yeats. Here, Irish Ambassador to the US Daniel Mulhall explains in an essay who are the unlikely heroes Yeats is memorializing. Yeatss great poem Easter 1916 is not a bad place to start when seeking an understanding of that transformative era for modern Ireland. Yeats, writing in the immediate aftermath of the Rising, spotted that Ireland had been changed utterly by the events of Easter week....

Celebrating the creativity of Irish women News 28 February 2021 This month we have been celebrating the creativity of Irish women, including sharing the stories of Irish women who have created history. We have remembered the designer and architect Eileen Gray; computer programming pioneer Kay McNulty; tennis champion Mabel Cahill; the first woman recognised as a veterinary surgeon in the UK and Ireland, Aleen Cust; the Irish born woman who founded the company that became the ...