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

Broken Angel is an excellent portrait of a troubled figure and it offers many lessons to those open to absorbing them

When Irish exiles needed a refuge, they swarmed to New York and established a hotbed of anti-British sentiment and activity that fed the flames of Irish freedom. The Great Famine in the 1840s forced millions of Irish out of Ireland, initially flooding the big cities of the east coast of America, especially New York and

“…the general awakening that was taking place in Ireland seemed to make us forget everything else for the time and think only of the fight in prospect.” – Joe McGarrity Joe McGarrity was Éamon de Valera’s right hand man in America and was once described by poet Padraic Colum as “a gallowglass ready to swing

Hanged by the British in 1916 for working with Germany and Irish nationalists in planning the Easter Rising of 1916, Sir Roger Casement is remembered as the “father of twentieth-century human rights investigations.” Standing in the gallows of Britain’s Pentonville Prison, Casement was asked by the governor if he had any final words. He did,

News from the Irish Examiners team of reporters

A unique film on the life of an Irish woman revolutionary will make its premiere at the CraicFest on Friday, March 8, at 7 30 p.m., at the Village ...

A MAN making a fourth attempt to get planning permission for nine age-friendly apartments in Naas’s iconic but derelict Market House in The Harbour is hoping to…

For a long time seen merely as the wife of Irish rebel Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, a new film reclaims the life and work of the Clonakilty woman who played a pivotal role in Ireland’s fight for independence

Rollicking true story has been made into a screenplay ahead of its 150th anniversary in 2026