Page 11 - Patrick Pearse News Today

In the late summer of 1993, I had dinner with Jack Healey, the Executive Director of Amnesty International at the time and a great friend of mine. I told

From Daniel O'Connell to Countess Markiexvicz, heroic War Heros to unmarked Irish famine mass graves - this is where Ireland's modern history comes alive. Ironically, there are few places in Dublin more alive than Glasnevin Cemetery. Domhnall O’Donoghue delves into the history of Ireland's largest burial place.

A Remembrance ceremony at the Glasnevin Cemetery will take place on Bastille Day, July 14, honoring the people of Ireland who served in France and French Professor, Édouard Cadic, from the National University in Ireland, Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.

On this day Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, the Irish Fenian leader and member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, died in Staten Island, NY. He was the Fenian Lazarus who kicked off the Easter Rising.

Picture caption: Military representatives, from left, Seán Mac Eoin (pro-Treaty), Seán Moylan (anti), Eoin O’Duffy (pro), Liam Lynch (anti), Gearói...

Ireland is one of the most important issues facing the British labour movement. For a quarter of a century the Six Counties of north-east Ulster have been in a state of latent, and sometimes open, civil war. In all this time, the left in Britain has been able to do nothing to help our working-class brothers and sisters, the majority of the people in both the Catholic and the Protestant communities, find a way out of the bloody cul-de-sac into which sectarianism, the conflict of national identiti...

THE MONASTIC community of Glenstal Abbey is in mourning following the death of Fr Brian Murphy OSB. The 86-year-old monk passed away on Monday following a short...

Joseph Mary Plunkett married Grace Gifford in Kilmainham Gaol on May 3, 1916, just hours before his execution, giving rise to one of the most popular and beloved Irish ballads of all time. The heartbreaking and shortlived nature of the marriage inspired Frank and Seán Meara to pen "Grace" in 1985.

The plaque was unveiled by Lord Mayor Alison Gilliland at 13 Sandymount Avenue, Dublin 4.

One of 1916 Rising’s key leaders, Pearse lived in house during ‘formative’ years after 1900