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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

A decision on the permanent location for a recently-unveiled portrait of Senator David Norris is also on hold pending further discussion by the working group

“Violence – not poverty or dysfunction – is the greatest threat to our society” writes Dr Chris Luke – as he examines the reasons behind the violence in

Proclamation signatory’s Irish Volunteers membership card was guiding at between €150,000 and €250,000

Padraig Pearse was born on November 10, 1879, and executed on May 3, 1916, in the wake of the Easter Rising. The truth of his life remains elusive. The poet W.B. Yeats, who knew him reasonably well, famously thought him half-mad, a man “flirting with the gallows tree.”

The History Sale at Whyte's has a number of items in relation to Patrick Pearse, the Irish teacher, barrister and revolutionary

The Wolfe Tones performed in the 3Olympia on Sunday night

"Up the Republic, they raise their battle cry, "Pearse and McDermott will pray for you on high" From “Legion of the Rearguard” – a Republican Civil...

Czech Gaelic speaker Dr. Petra Johana Poncarová is leading a project at the University of Glasgow focussed on early nationalist Ruaraidh Erskine…

I get a stark reminder of the war in Ukraine as I pass the back entrance to our excellent Highlands Hotel here in Glenties, which has a section accommodating mostly young Ukrainian mothers and their kids.