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April 23

106 years ago, on Easter week, the 1916 Rising took place bringing the fight for Ireland's independence to Dublin's streets. How many of these facts did you know?

Trinity College Dublin's copy of Shakespeare's First Folio is currently on display in the Old Library as part of a new exhibition. Ireland’s only copy of the Bard's first edition of collected plays has also been digitized and is now available to the public online.

The idea that there are three fronts in the class struggle was formulated by Frederick Engels when he praised the German socialists in these terms:

The idea that there are three fronts in the class struggle was formulated by Frederick Engels when he praised the German socialists in these terms:

Ireland’s only copy of the first edition of Shakespeare’s collected plays, known as the First Folio, has gone on display in Trinity College Dublin.

From the introduction of Christianity the Good Friday Agreement - key moments in the Emerald Isle's past, eleven moments that changed Irreland's history.

Pathé has colorized their film footage of the Irish revolution and made it into a feature-length documentary - "Revolution in Colour".

IrishCentral Contributor Susan Isabella Sheehan recalls her visit to Dublin's Kilmainham Gaol and the impact it had on her understanding of Irish history.

Easter is a major holiday in Ireland, second only to Christmas, for a host of reasons, some of which are religious and some historical. Socially, it's a high-water mark of the year, arriving just as the spring is really being felt throughout the Irish countryside.